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Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400



Branden Robinson wrote:
> The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a
> spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid.

Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package that is separate
from X and depends on the right set of tools? I like this, because it
allows for a xfree86-knoppix-config or whatever.

> I thought it was agreed a long time ago that it really was the installer's
> job to get hardware autodetection tools onto the system.

That's fine for general purpose hardware detection tools, but for things
like read-edid and mdetect, we either end up bloating systems with no X
with these tools, or we end up with unresolvable bugs like #250422.

-- 
see shy jo

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