On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:57:10PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:32:11AM -0700, Agthorr wrote: > > Package: x-window-system > > Version: 4.1.0-16 > > Severity: normal > > > > The x-window-system should depend on x-display-manager (provided by > > xdm, gdm, kdm, and wdm) instead of on xdm. > > How is this anything more than a wishlist bug? What's going to win if > NOTHING is installed, which is when people are going to be installing > x-window-system in the first place. > > Xdm is the XFree-provided display manager. Install another if you want > another. All the display managers can co-exist.
Marc's analysis is exactly correct. "x-window-system" core exists to
give the user practically everything from the XFree86 distribution.
That means not just any window manager, but twm.
That means not just any terminal emulator, but xterm.
That means not just any display manager, but xdm.
It sounds like "x-window-system-core" is more suited to your purposes,
if you don't care for xdm.
Package: x-window-system-core
Architecture: any
Depends: ${F:XWSC-Special-Depends}xlibmesa3, xfonts-base (>> 4.0),
xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-scalable, xbase-clients, xutils
Description: X Window System core components
This metapackage provides the essential components for a standalone
workstation running the X Window System. It provides the X libraries, an X
server (except on the S/390 architecture), a set of fonts, and a group of
basic X clients and utilities.
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Higher level metapackages, such as those for desktop environments, can
depend on this package and simplify their dependencies.
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It should be noted that a package providing x-window-manager and a package
providing x-terminal-emulator should also be installed to ensure a
comfortable X experience.
Package: x-window-system
Architecture: all
Depends: x-window-system-core, lbxproxy, proxymngr, twm, xdm, xfs, xfwp, xnest,
xprt, xspecs, xterm, xvfb
Description: X Window System
This metapackage provides substantially all the components of the X Window
System as developed by the XFree86 Project, as well as a set of historically
popular accessory programs.
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The development and debugging libraries are not provided by this metapackage.
Closing this bug, which appears to be a product of failure to read the
package description.
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