On Thursday 20 April 2006 21:17, Bill Allombert wrote: > I might be mistaken, but as I see it the server require exactly > the video drivers for the cards configured in the xorg.conf file. > If you have a ATI card, installing xserver-xorg-video-nv will fulfill > the xserver-xorg-core dependency but will do no good for the server. > Similarly installing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics will fulfill the > dependency but will do nothing if you d not have a synaptics device. > > So this is a case where a dependency cannot be expressed by the system. > In that case, we usually make them "recommends" and document them > in the packages description. Make sure to discuss this with tasksel and debian-cd maintainers though so that drivers are at least available on a new installation.
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