Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Just another voice who doesn't care for the amount of cruft that hal and console-setup drag into my system. The fact that console-setup remaps the console fonts and doesn't even provide a way to set it back to CP437 is particularly egregious.
I have, for now, simply edited /var/lib/dpkg/status and removed the dependencies, but will have to remember how to satisfy a versioned dependency with equivs. (I think it can't be done with a *-dummy package that Provides: the package.) Installing hal and console-setup wants to drag in 9417 kB of cruft: --\ Packages being automatically installed to satisfy dependencies (20) piA acl +176kB <none> 2.2.47-2 piA console-setup +1286kB <none> 1.32 piA console-terminus +692kB <none> 4.26-2.1 piA consolekit +541kB <none> 0.3.0-2 piA hal +1724kB <none> 0.5.12~git piA hal-info +487kB <none> 20090309-1 piA initramfs-tools +430kB <none> 0.93.2 piA klibc-utils +467kB <none> 1.5.15-1 piA libck-connector0 +115kB <none> 0.3.0-2 piA libklibc +135kB <none> 1.5.15-1 piA libpam-ck-connector +127kB <none> 0.3.0-2 piA libpolkit-grant2 +168kB <none> 0.9-3 piA libsmbios-bin +377kB <none> 2.0.3.dfsg piA libsplashy1 +115kB <none> 0.3.13-4 piA libvolume-id1 +160kB <none> 0.141-1 piA pm-utils +303kB <none> 1.2.5-2 piA policykit +430kB <none> 0.9-3 piA powermgmt-base +90.1kB <none> 1.30+nmu1 piA radeontool +73.7kB <none> 1.5-5 piA udev +979kB <none> 0.141-1 piA uswsusp +479kB <none> 0.8-1.1+b1 piA vbetool +61.4kB <none> 1.1-2 Although some of that is only Recommends: and can be removed, taking it down to 7528k: xserver-xorg D-> console-setup D-> console-terminus D-> hal D-> hal-info D-> acl D-> udev D-> libvolume-id1 D-> libvolume-id1 D-> policykit D-> libpolkit-grant2 D-> consolekit D-> consolekit D-> libck-connector0 R-> libpam-ck-connector D-> pm-utils D-> powermgmt-base R-> radeontool R-> uswsusp D-> libsplashy1 R-> vbetool If we hold out some faint hope that bug #448197 will (after a year and a half of inaction) be resolved by downgrading the pm-utils dependency to a recommends, then that takes it down to 7135k. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org