On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:45:56PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hrm, everytime somebody posts about the Release Notes, I point them to > > my XFree86 stuff, and yet it never seems to get included. :) > > I'm suprised you don't mention the x-window-system metapackage. Erm, whoops. Oversight. Thanks for pointing that out. NEW X WINDOW SYSTEM METAPACKAGES THAT MAKE LIFE EASY: Confused by all the packages comprising XFree86? Don't know which ones you need and which ones you don't? Two metapackages make life easier. One is strictly for end users; the other is mainly intended for use by the new "task" system, but may be used by end users as well, of course. They are: x-window-system This metapackage provides substantially all the components of the X Window System as developed by the XFree86 Project, as well as a set of historically popular accessory programs. x-window-system-core This metapackage provides the essential components for a standalone workstation running the X Window System. It provides the X libraries, an X server, a set of fonts, and a group of basic X clients and utilities. If you want to play it safe and "just want X to work", run the following command: # apt-get install x-window-system If you have limited disk space or specialized needs, there is a stripped down version: # apt-get install x-window-system-core Note that with this metapackage you won't get a window manager or terminal emulator. Debian provides several different programs for either function. Tasks will generally depend on x-window-system-core, not x-window-system. > > OLD X SERVER SELECTION FILE NO LONGER USED: > > > > The /etc/X11/Xserver file is no longer used, and is completely ignored by > > the new X server wrapper. > > Why doesn't this get removed on upgrade? > > Or renamed to Xserver.dpkg-old or something, so I can know it's > deletable. Okay, I can do that, too. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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