On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:51:46AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: > did you select task-x-window-system ? if so thats why it depends on > xdm. anXious can do nothing about that. > when is anXious even asking about this anyway? it can't be in the > postinst...
When you install debian, it installs the base packages, then you reboot, answer some questions, one of which is about the package selection: either advanced (using dselect) or simple (using a task selector). I wager many people choose simple, as I did once (cause I was too lazy that day to go through dselect ;) ). Now if you select simple, the only way you can install xwin is with task-x-window-*. (unless you use apt-get once everything is installed, but that's not the point in this discussion :) ) This installs anXious. anXious asks if you want xdm, so I would think it wouldn't install it if I said no... But as you said task-x-window-system installs xdm. So something's not completely consistent here... Cheers, Patrix. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin.
