I re-installed debian sid yesterday. Based on the xserver-xorg package documentation I choosed to intall :
sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-video-ati I only have a keyboard, a mouse and an ATI video card. I was assuming that naming the specific input and video packages would trigger the presence of the xserver-xorg-input-2 and xserver-xorg-video-2, thus avoiding to install xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all. It does not work, I have the *-all package installed. I tried installing only : aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-ati what happens is that it pulls xserver-xorg-core then xserver-xorg and then, of course xserver-input-all (but no xserver-video-all). So here again with a *-all. Same thing when I tried only xserver-xorg-input-kb, I ended up with video-all. Is there a way to only have the desired input and video drivers and not the undesired ones? Or is it a bug in aptitude that does not know how to interpret the presence of specific candidates for a virtual package and a choice of packages? If you think this is the case, please forward this bug report to aptitude. Maybe straight apt-get is ok but I did not try. Thanks in advance, Paul Thomas
