On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 12:33:44AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > tasksel installs the same quantity like RedHat and SuSe or Mandrake > > After the baseinstallation and reboot, a newbie can type > > apt-get install mozilla > > and he/she will get a working system wit a x-window-system > > Curently it does not work (POTATO, WOODY and SARGE) and newbies do > not know, that there is a Meta-Package x-window-system(-core) same > for a windowmanager. > > >In my view part of the Debian philosophy is to accomodate newbies where > >possible, but to refuse sacrificing the experts to them. > > >I suggest you start using tasksel, then. > > It installt too much I simply do not agree with your proposed remedy for this problem. I suggest you begin a discussion thread on the debian-devel mailing list with a description of the problem, and solicit solutions to it. I suspect most of my fellow developers will agree with me that making all X clients depend on the entire X Window System sample implementation is not a good idea. -- G. Branden Robinson | Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too branden@debian.org | difficult for the computer http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | scientist.
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