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Re: Woody release notes



On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:44:26PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > > Perhaps this section should mention that installing mdetect and
> > > discover (and discover-data?) before installing xserver-xfree86 will
> > > turn on auto-detection of the graphics card?
> 
> Maybe we should make some metapackage for this?

Mmm, I don't think so.

> Package: x-window-system-easy
> Pre-Depends: discover, mdetect, read-edid

See Section 7.2 of the Policy Manual.  Also, read-edid only exists for
one architecture, so a substvar trick would have to be played here.

> Depends: xserver-xfree86

Giving people just the X server and nothing else will not make them
happy, or make them feel that Debian is "easy".

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