Re: How to prevent x startup
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might
> > > also get reinstalled on update.
> >
> > Why would it ?
>
> Is that a rhetorical question?
>
> I assume because x-window-system depends on xdm?
So if you removed xdm then x-window-system (which is just a metapackage)
would also be removed. (Unless you're using --force-depends, but don't
do that unless you're already a guru.)
> Or if xdm was updated in a apt-get dist-upgrade?
That would only happen if something you already have installed suddenly
starts depending on it when it didn't beforehand, which is unlikely.
Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be
reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre
reason this is going to happen.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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