Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:47:08PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 11 May 2014 at 13:14:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:43:14, Brian wrote:
> >
> > > xserver-xorg-input-kbd
> > > xserver-xorg-input-mouse
> >
> > These two have been replaced by xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>
> Thanks. I did have -evdev because it is a Depends: of xserver-xorg. -kbd
> and -mouse are now purged, which gives me about 300K of disk space back.
>
> > > xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > > xserver-xorg-video-ati
> > >
> > > I'm fairly sure I installed the Recommends:. You may need to have
> > > different video packages.
> >
> > Last time I did this I also needed an xfonts- package, like xfonts-base,
> > but since it is a Recommends: of xserver-common I will probably be
> > pulled in if one doesn't disable them.
>
> After looking at the machine I'm now certain I didn't use recommended
> packages. There is no xfonts- package and (for what I use the machine
> for) there do not seem to be any ill-effects.
This are bitmap fonts. They are necessary for x11-apps and similar
software, which today is not used by the majority.
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