Hi Russel! On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:19:26 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 05:48, Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote: >> > I suspect that most Debian systems have all the video driver packages >> > installed (along with drivers for wacom tablets and other hardware >> > devices that might be used) as that appears to be the default. >> >> A bug in apt-get/aptitude prevents this "default" to be unset, please >> read http://bugs.debian.org/435662. > > It doesn't look like an apt bug to me. > > xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on xserver-xorg-core which depends on > xserver-xorg which depends on xserver-xorg-video-all and > xserver-xorg-input-all. > > It looks like a dependency problem in the xorg packages. No, the dependencies in the xorg packages are correct, please check the alternative dependencies and what's the -video-* and -input-* packages provide: ===== luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-intel | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4) luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-intel | grep Provides Provides: xserver-xorg-video-2 luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-input-kbd | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4) luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-input-kbd | grep Provides Provides: xserver-xorg-input-2 luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-input-mouse | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4) luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-input-mouse | grep Provides Provides: xserver-xorg-input-2 luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg-core | grep Depends Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), \ libdrm2 (>= 2.3.1), libfontenc1, libhal1 (>= 0.5.8.1), libpixman-1-0, \ libxau6, libxdmcp6, libxfont1 (>= 1:1.2.9), xserver-xorg luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xorg | grep Depends Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4-3), xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-2, \ xserver-xorg-input-all | xserver-xorg-input-2, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), \ debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, xkb-data | xkb-data-legacy, x11-xkb-utils luca@gismo:~$ ===== If the problem would be the dependencies in the xorg packages, I couldn't manually install the single -video-intel, -input-kbd and -input-mouse packages and then the rest through `apt-get -f install`. Maybe xserver-xorg should firsty depend on -video-2 and then on -video-all, the same for -input-2 and -input-all? BTW, this is particular annoying since when installing Debian on the Opemoko FreeRunner [1], we need to first install all the -video-* and -input-* packages and then remove them [2]. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner [2] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git;a=blob;f=install.sh
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