On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 09:19:31AM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:09:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Personally, I'd be inclined to upgrade X11 to Standard. What's changed
> > since it was put in policy originally? Computers have become a lot faster
> > and larger, and a lot more GNU/Linux users expect to have a GUI available.
> I would rather want to stay things as they with X now. If X will be in
> standard more application would get there as well (sooner or later). This
> could lead to situation where one has to install X even if it's not needed on
> particular machine. Of course i might be wrong...
At the very least, getting rid of everything that is even vaguely X related
is as simple as:
apt-get remove xlib6g xlib6
or hitting `_' on those two packages in dselect, and using the
conflict/dependency resolution screen to get rid of all the packages
that depend on them.
Cheers,
aj
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