Bug#556142: Move openssh-client recommendation of xauth to an X related package
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:29:37PM -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> openssh-client ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openssh-client )
> recommends xauth ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xauth )
> which brings in a lot of X libraries.
>
> Could instead those X recommendations be moved to another package that
> comes with X? So if you have X, you get working X forwarding in ssh,
> and if you don't have X you don't?
My experience has been that when I do this I instead get lots of bug
reports from confused people wondering why X forwarding isn't working.
Note that the case where this really makes a difference is on the server
end, where you may well not have a full X installation but may
nevertheless need to forward one or two windows.
I don't see a way to avoid both sets of problems at once, and the other
one seems more numerous ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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