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Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report



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On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 01:03, Graeme Merrall wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:38:33AM +0100, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > I don't think it does. My dpkg -l says only xscreensaver-nognome; that is
> > also the build dependency for kde here.
>
> Hmm maybe it's a sid thing then. On the other hand maybe not
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xscreensaver-nognome.html
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/xscreensaver-nognome.html
>
> Both list xscreensaver as a dependency.

Yes.

xscreensaver-nognome does depend on xscreensaver. So does xscreensaver-gnome.

xscreensaver depends on xscreensaver-gnome | xscreensaver-nognome, and those 
two packages conflict with each other (i.e. installing xscreensaver package 
will pick one, probably xscreensaver-gnome unless you already have, or are 
installing xscreensaver-nognome).

Bleh, that doesn't read very nice. Anyway, gnome users should use 
xscreensaver-gnome, kde users should use xscreensaver-nognome. IMHO, 
apt-get-ing the xscreensaver package may pick the wrong one of these by 
default.

My 2¢

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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