Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails

[J N]

When installing woody, after getting to the tasksel screen, I noticed 
that choosing "XWindowServer" option by itself did not resolve enough 
dependencies to be able to run the server.  I also tried apt-get install 
kdm, suspecting that I just needed to choose a window manager, however, 
kdm wouldn't resolve either.

My (rather blunt) solution to the problem was to choose the "desktop" 
option in tasksel as well -- that appears to resolve whatever 
dependencies need resolving.  I know just (not) enough about 
XWindowServer theory to suspect that this may be by design -- that I 
need to make some sort of 'choice' about my environment that is made by 
selecting the "desktop" option.

Does anyone know why this is, or if it is just specific to laptops, or 
if it is just that something failed that should have worked?

I'm interested in theory.  I don't have the specific error messages on 
hand (to get them, I would need to do a fair amount of work) -- but I'm 
learning how to compile kernels, and the process has resulting in 
needing to reinstall debian woody about 6 times so far... (yes, I'm 
doing things terribly wrong and I'm aware of it)... I figure 
reinstallation will go faster if I don't install all of XWindowsServer 
and the desktop each time...

Thanks!

-Jason.

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