Re: Why does kdebase depend on xdm? Right way to disable xdm?

[Takanori Suzuki <htaka@c-d-k.ne.jp>]

kdebase doen't depend on xdm.

 dpkg --status kdebase
Package: kdebase
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/x11
Installed-Size: 9691
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
Version: 4:1.1.1-19990822-1
Depends: menu (>= 1.5-5), kdelibs2g (>= 4:1.1.1-19990817-1), libc6 (>= 2.1), libjpeg62, libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1), libpng2, libstdc++2.10, libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, libtiff3g, qt1g (>= 1.44-4), xlib6g (>= 3.3.3.1-1), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), rman, xfree86-common
Suggests: kdewallpapers, kdm, kdeadmin, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdetoys, kdeutils, korganizer, kdebase-doc, kdebase-i18n, xbase-clients      

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> Can anyone tell me why the kdebase package depends on xdm?  
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> Also, what's the "right" way to display xdm without removing
> the package?
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> (I want to try out KDE, but don't want to use xdm.)
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> Thanks,