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Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit



* On Tue Oct 23, 2001 13:47:15 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:34:59PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:31:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> was heard to say:
> >   What about upgrades?  Initial installs probably aren't a problem, but
> > people upgrading without metapackages will get xbase-clients and not xinit!
> > (thus preventing them from starting X at all, at least using the common
> >  methods)
> 
> A very good point, and I'm not very enthusiastic about renaming
> xbase-clients.
> 
> >   The rest of your proposal looks like you're against this solution, though.
> 
> You may have raised a show-stopper here.

Hmm, since the packages in xinit used to be part of xbase-clients, what
about having xbase-clients depend on xinit?

- Tal

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