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Re: No xorg dependency for kde-minimal?



Hi, Sune:

On Sunday 22 November 2009 01:19:39 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2009-11-21, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm setting up a virtualbox image to do some testing and installed
> > kde-minimal into it. After rebooting I didn't see KDE start up and
> > executing 'startkde' produced the following msg: "$DISPLAY is not set or
> > cannot connect to the X server."
> > Searching with aptitude revealed that no single xorg package was
> > installed.
> >
> > While I realise that this is kde-minimal, but isn't this a bit too
> > minimal (=useless)? (I know how to fix it, so no need to explain that)
>
> You can run kde from a remote machine...

But it usually (while not always) will be run locally.  Therefore it should 
suggest an X environment (not a "hard" dependency but yes a "suggets").


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