On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:02:22AM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: > shows that there are a few packages that depend on xfonts-base, but none > that you can rely on being installed when a user is trying to get their > X installation working. You could stretch a point and say that > the x-window-system-core metapackage really should be installed by > anyone trying to install X. You could, but I wouldn't. > However, although the description for x-window-system-core suggests that > window managers etc. should depend on it, none does: It says no such thing. > So, in the meantime, it looks to me as if xserver-xfree86 or xserver-common > should depend on xfonts-base. > > But I'm prepared to be persuaded otherwise ;) You're not in the habit of reading package descriptions, are you? -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy branden@debian.org | spot on the pavement, where used to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | lie the carcass of a dead horse.
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