I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all the xserver-xorg-video-* stuff...I do not know exactly how much overhead these packages add but I would really rather using just the VESA driver and remove the rest...but a question about that...how do I force the usage of just the VESA driver?
Thanks in advance, Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Kevin B. McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:09 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: >> I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup...I have tried several things >> but I am just not getting it. >> >> Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me a >> BASIC/MINIMAL X setup. Anytime I do anything with X-WINDOW-SERVER-* I >> get tons of dependencies and I do not want them. >> >> Mainly, I want an X setup which will allow me to view an X session log >> in with GDM and have Fluxbox as my window manager. Maybe I am going >> about it all wrong but I know I am going through hell trying to figure >> it out. >> > You need at least x-window-system-core (if that is still the name of the > metapackage). If you choose xdm, that will be better than gdm (which > will pull in quite a few GNOME libs. Actually, x-window-system-core and x-window-system (in Sid & Etch) are identical meta-packages that do nothing but Depend upon the xorg meta-package. The basic problem is that any sane installation of X should probably include the xbase-clients package, which includes rather useful things like startx and xauth scripts. Unfortunately it also includes a whole lot of junk that pulls in a lot of library dependencies. But until this package is split apart, I don't see any way around this problem. See for instance bug # 332521. I guess one could at least skip a few dependencies (like imake) by not installing the xorg metapackage, and installing only the following minimal list of packages and their dependencies: xserver-xorg xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xbase-clients xkb-data xterm xdm (As Roberto says, xdm will pull in fewer packages than gdm. Choose xfonts-75dpi and/or xfonts-scalable as well as or instead of xfonts-100dpi if you wish. You can try not installing xbase-clients, but I don't know how well things will work.) ... and then uninstalling all the xserver-xorg-* packages except the ones appropriate to his system. Note, I haven't at all tested this suggestion, so caveat emptor. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
