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Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg



Fabian Greffrath, le Fri 18 Feb 2011 19:27:00 +0100, a écrit :
> Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > You'll admit that the weight of twm, xcalc etc. is not very high.
> 
> Sure, but I consider them obsolete on a system that has Gnome or Kde
> installed. And please remember that the release notes had to get deleted
> from CD1 for some reason...

Of course I do.  I did have also warned d-d about the issue of the
growing size of gnome and kde quite some time ago. x11-apps is just 700K
big, i.e. 0.1% of a CD.  You can't compare that with gnome/kde..

> > That being said, yes you want the fonts and xbase-clients, else the
> > whole X stack will not work without more configuration.
> 
> Hm, maybe I should reassign this request to the xfs and ask them to
> rearrange the packages again so that at least one of them provides all
> the necessary parts that you described.

Err, you mean installing xfs+fonts instead of mere fonts?!

Samuel



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