On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:02:22AM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote: > 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 ;) Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I've always thought that the reason they don't is that you *could* legitimately have the contents of xfonts-base provided remotely by a font server, instead of locally installed. Jules