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Re: debian on distrowatch



On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:09:11PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> Ok after going through tasksel again and looking up X.  I dont think
> that provides a wm.  At least not in woody:
>  It should be noted that a package providing x-window-manager and a     
>    package providing x-terminal-emulator should also be installed to    
>    ensure a comfortable X experience.
> 
> I am not an expert, I am just looking at what tasksel gives.  

That's from the description of "x-window-system-core", which is intended
to be "only what you need", and is really intended for use by other
(desktop) tasks.  The user-selectable X task should be
"x-window-system", which does indeed provide a window manager and
terminal emulator.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     I had thought very carefully about
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     comitting hara-kiri over this, but
branden@debian.org                 |     I overslept this morning.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Toshio Yamaguchi

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