On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > I think you did the right thing here, considering that I did not provide > enough reasons to consider it as a bug in the bug report itself. > > But I still do not understand the reason for the dependency, or you still > have not explained them to me clear enough, or I still fail to understand > the reasons, so I've asked in debian-devel. In particular (this is > something that I did not mentioned in the bug report) the purpose of a > library is to satisfy the dynamic linker. Considering this, the dependency > on yet another package seems clearly artificial to me. I wanted a place to centrally manage the mess of symbolic links regarding an X installation that are mandated by existing practice and the FHS. I want only one package to "own" the symlinks /usr/bin/X11, /usr/lib/X11, etc. People with X server-only installations have no need for the xlib6g package. Other types of X installation will have xlib6g, xserver-common, or both. So it makes sense that anything they both need should go in a separate package. Thus xfree86-common. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / branden@ecn.purdue.edu | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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