[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: RFC: Future of xserver-xorg



Le 07/02/2011 09:33, Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> xserver-xorg only serves a few purposes AFAICT:
>  - dependencies on the server + drivers + tools, which can easily be
>    moved to the xorg metapackage (we already have xorg → xserver-xorg
>    → stuff, it's just about replacing that with xorg → stuff).
>   

xorg depends on many more packages than xserver-xorg does. My
understanding is: When you want the minimal stuff, you install
xserver-xorg. When you want almost everything to get a "normal" X
running, you install xorg. But I didn't check if there was still a point
in not installing xorg recently.

Brice


Reply to: