Re: Debian and KDE
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:21:57PM -0400, William Bradley wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 06:45 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> > Uninstall XDM and install KDM, if you installed the task x-window-system
> > you will have to uninstall that first, it is only a meta-package, will
> > not affect other apps.
>
> Thanks Greg and excuse my ignorance what exactly is the "task"
> x-window-system?
Nowadays, it's the x-window-system package, which is a metapackage: it
exists only to depend on other packages. This kind of package used to be
known as a "task package" back in the days of potato, although tasks are
now handled in a somewhat different way.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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