severity 258130 wishlist retitle 258130 xfree86: make all X clients depend on x-window-system-core reassign 258130 xfree86 tag 258130 + wontfix thanks On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:23:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2004-07-07 22:51:41, schrieb Sven-Haegar Koch: > > >Very bad idea. > >I am using X applications on more than one headless "server" machine. The > >output gets forwarded by ssh to my workstation or laptop, and only these > >two boxes have a full X installed - the others only the absolutely > >neccessary libs, no X-Server, no fonts. > > The problem ist, that Newbies which do not use 'tasksel' running into > trouble and I have posted this wish, because today afternoon I had > this problem with two new Debian-Users. > > They have tried Mandrake and RedHat, but the Minimalinstallation was > bigger as the HDD's... And so would Debian be if we falsely introduced dependencies to save newbies from themselves when they refuse to use the tools designed for them -- like "tasksel". In my view part of the Debian philosophy is to accomodate newbies where possible, but to refuse sacrificing the experts to them. > Debian was the only solution to get a running Operating System. > > I had this Problem more then 100 times since 1999, where I had the > same problem. I suggest you start using tasksel, then. Tagging this bug "wontfix". -- G. Branden Robinson | There's something wrong if you're Debian GNU/Linux | always right. branden@debian.org | -- Glasow's Law http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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