Re: UGH!! Some people use accelerated X!
aarons@andrew.cmu.edu (Aaron Solochek) wrote:
>Why is it that packages are made to be dependant on Xfree? Whether or
>not they actually are, there ar some packages that seem to assume you
>need xfree installed to work right. However, install xfree when you
>use accelerated x is not such a great idea. How about anything X
>suggests xfree, and doesn't automatically dselect it, and all of the
>things its dependant on for you? This is really annoying.
For reference:
[cjw44@riva ~]$ grep-available -FDepends -nsPackage xfree86-common
wdm
task-x-window-system-core
cmucl-clx
xserver-common
xlib6g
xbase
It's arguable that this is a bug in at least wdm and cmucl-clx; I'm not
well-versed enough in how X is organized to know about the others. As a
stopgap, why not use equivs to create yourself a dummy package which is
called or Provides: xfree86-common, or whatever, and pretend you *have*
got XFree86 after all? This seems like a very good temporary solution.
Perhaps eventually there should be some other virtual package provided
by xfree86-common which other X systems could also provide, but you'd
need to talk to Branden Robinson about that.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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