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Re: RFC: Future of xserver-xorg



On Mon, Feb  7, 2011 at 09:43:00 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:

> 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.
> 
Ack, I don't think we should be requiring xorg, so a separate package
for core server + drivers seems like a good thing to keep.

Cheers,
Julien

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