Re: Couple quirks still in Xfree86
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> A couple things that I observed in the latest 3.3.2-9:
>
> 1) installing fvwm95 forces me to install xdm:
> fvwm95 depends on xbase depends on xdm.
> Ok with me, horrible for a newbie. I'd suggest xdm ask if it should be
> started on boot during installation.
That's a bug in fvwm95. By which I don't mean that the maintainer did
anything wrong, but the dependency should be changed to whichever of the
new packages fvwm95 really does need.
Although, personally, I think newbies *should* be encouraged to use xdm.
It's a sensible way to use X, at least to start with, and I use it all the
time.
Jules
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