Re: apt-get problem
Quoting Debian Mail (debian@sos.ethz.ch):
> > X has been reorganized. xterm is in its own package and startx is in
> > xbase-clients.
>
> Is there a way to get to such vital information without looking up
> changes for every installed file or bugging people here on the list?
It's the second substantive item of the release notes for slink (after
the kernel version). What's new...
> Don't the xserver packages depend on xbase-clients? If yes, why wasn't
> it installed by apt-get?
No. A traditional Xterminal is a server that has no local clients.
> Also xterm seems to be rather important to me. Is there some better
> terminal installed as default?
It's only suggested now as there are so many popular varieties.
Cheers,
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