Bug#446312: Does not seem to work very well
I re-installed debian sid yesterday.
Based on the xserver-xorg package documentation I choosed to intall :
sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-video-ati
I only have a keyboard, a mouse and an ATI video card. I was assuming that naming the specific input and video packages would trigger the presence of the xserver-xorg-input-2 and xserver-xorg-video-2, thus avoiding to install xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all.
It does not work, I have the *-all package installed.
I tried installing only :
aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-ati
what happens is that it pulls xserver-xorg-core then xserver-xorg and then, of course xserver-input-all (but no xserver-video-all). So here again with a *-all.
Same thing when I tried only xserver-xorg-input-kb, I ended up with video-all.
Is there a way to only have the desired input and video drivers and not the undesired ones?
Or is it a bug in aptitude that does not know how to interpret the presence of specific candidates for a virtual package and a choice of packages? If you think this is the case, please forward this bug report to aptitude. Maybe straight apt-get is ok but I did not try.
Thanks in advance,
Paul Thomas
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