Bug#237649: kde does not depend on xserver

[Jukka Neppius <jkn@softavenue.fi>]

Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> jkn@softavenue.fi wrote:
> > Package: kde
> > Version: 4:3.1.2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > We made a test installation with daily bootfloppies.  Tasksel did not
> > work (perhaps change unstable -> testing confused it).  I said to
> > installers: "Install kde and you'll get everything you need."  It
> > didn't work, because xserver did not get selected.  
> 
> This is not a bug in no package in Debian. You don't need to have an
> Xserver installed on the machine you are using KDE...
> 
> KDE does not really need an x server so it (and even the kde
> metapackage) shouldn't depend on it.

I'm sorry I didn't realize possibility to run KDE and Xserver in
separate computers.  But is there another possibility?

X-terminals are not very common, so perhaps kde could suggest xserver?


> And wrt tasksel:
> 
> And there is a task "X Window System" written a few lines under "Desktop
> environment".

So a user who tries Linux first time skips "X window system", because
he doesn't know what it is. He gets only console and cannot do
anything with it...  For future of Debian (and others) those new users
are most important.
 
- Jukka