Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 10 July 2004 19:23, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Doesn't d-i install mdetect to autodetect the mouse? > > D-i does install both read-edid and mdetect during first stage installation. > However, they are both _uninstalled_ somewhere during base-config. > (See also #250422) No, read-edid and mdetect are installed by base-config (but see bug #258690), prior to package installation. They are later removed, iff X was not installed. > I have noticed myself that if read-edid and mdetect are installed at the same > time as xfree-xserver86 (e.g. by selecting them from the "suggests" list), > they may not be used during X configuration (as they are not yet set up at > that time). Since X doesn't declare a dependency on them, selecting them for install at the same time as X does not even guarantee they'll be _unpacked_ when X is conigured. And they will certianly not be available when it's preconfigured. This is why base-config is complicated with the need to mess with read-edid and mdetect itself, and why I'm left with bugs such as #250422 which I cannot fix. There are other, better ways this could be done, but they all require reorganising how X's configuration is done. -- see shy jo
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