Re: dselect bug?? client-only installations of X..
--On Sun, May 10, 1998 3:31 pm -0400 "Michael Stone"
<mstone@itri.loyola.edu> wrote:
> Quoting M.C. Vernon (mcv21@cam.ac.uk):
>> As I see it,xbase requires an xserver of some description: although it
>> suggests a whole list of servers, you need to install at least one.
>
> But xbase doesn't really require an xserver. E.g., I have a machine with
> an MDA card and monitor that I sometimes want to run emacs on. If I'm
> sitting in front of a machine with Xwindows, it would be nice to run
> that emacs in graphical mode. No problem: I fire up ssh, which uses
> xauth to forward x sessions...oh, wait, xauth is in xbase...guess I need
> to install an xserver _on a machine with a text-only video system_ to
> get this little goodie to run. X programs should all work like this:
> they don't really care whether there is an Xserver on the local machine,
> as long as they can send their display somewhere.
>
> I'm not sure how best to deal with this; perhaps an xserver-headless or
> xserver-networked package or somesuch that could satisfy dependencies
> without actually installing an Xserver on the local machine.
On the contrary, that's exactly how the system is setup. xbase *doesn't*
require xserver - it just recommends it, which is fair enough.
However, dselect seems to interpret recommends more strongly than I'd like
it to.
Jules
/----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\
| Jelibean aka | jules@jellybean.co.uk | 6 Evelyn Rd |
| Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey |
| Julian Bean | jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk | TW9 2TF *UK* |
+----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+
| War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. |
| When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. |
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: