Bug#166497: marked as done (x-window-system: should depend on x-display-manager instead of xdm)
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Package: x-window-system
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: normal
The x-window-system should depend on x-display-manager (provided by
xdm, gdm, kdm, and wdm) instead of on xdm.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux volition 2.4.19volition #1 Fri Oct 25 14:29:28 PDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages x-window-system depends on:
ii lbxproxy 4.1.0-16 Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server
ii proxymngr 4.1.0-16 X proxy services manager
ii twm 4.1.0-16 Tab window manager
ii x-window-system-core 4.1.0-16 X Window System core components
ii xdm 4.1.0-16 X display manager
ii xfs 4.1.0-16 X font server
ii xfwp 4.1.0-16 X firewall proxy server
ii xnest 4.1.0-16 nested X server
ii xprt 4.1.0-16 X print server
ii xspecs 4.1.0-16 X protocol, extension, and library
ii xterm 4.1.0-16 X terminal emulator
ii xvfb 4.1.0-16 virtual framebuffer X server
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Forgot to actually close this bug.
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Subject: Bug#166497: x-window-system: should depend on x-display-manager
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:41:18 -0500
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:57:10PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:32:11AM -0700, Agthorr wrote:
> > Package: x-window-system
> > Version: 4.1.0-16
> > Severity: normal
> >=20
> > The x-window-system should depend on x-display-manager (provided by
> > xdm, gdm, kdm, and wdm) instead of on xdm.
>=20
> How is this anything more than a wishlist bug? What's going to win if
> NOTHING is installed, which is when people are going to be installing
> x-window-system in the first place.
>=20
> Xdm is the XFree-provided display manager. Install another if you want
> another. All the display managers can co-exist.
Marc's analysis is exactly correct. "x-window-system" core exists to
give the user practically everything from the XFree86 distribution.
That means not just any window manager, but twm.
That means not just any terminal emulator, but xterm.
That means not just any display manager, but xdm.
It sounds like "x-window-system-core" is more suited to your purposes,
if you don't care for xdm.
Package: x-window-system-core
Architecture: any
Depends: ${F:XWSC-Special-Depends}xlibmesa3, xfonts-base (>> 4.0), xfonts-1=
00dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-scalable, xbase-clients, xutils
Description: X Window System core components
This metapackage provides the essential components for a standalone
workstation running the X Window System. It provides the X libraries, an X
server (except on the S/390 architecture), a set of fonts, and a group of
basic X clients and utilities.
.
Higher level metapackages, such as those for desktop environments, can
depend on this package and simplify their dependencies.
.
It should be noted that a package providing x-window-manager and a package
providing x-terminal-emulator should also be installed to ensure a
comfortable X experience.
Package: x-window-system
Architecture: all
Depends: x-window-system-core, lbxproxy, proxymngr, twm, xdm, xfs, xfwp, xn=
est, xprt, xspecs, xterm, xvfb
Description: X Window System
This metapackage provides substantially all the components of the X Window
System as developed by the XFree86 Project, as well as a set of historical=
ly
popular accessory programs.
.
The development and debugging libraries are not provided by this metapacka=
ge.
Closing this bug, which appears to be a product of failure to read the
package description.
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