[918] in athena10
Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Jan 22 19:45:34 2009
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:44:36 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
CC: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Xavid wrote:
>
>> 1. It would be nice if there was a version of debathena-login that
>> didn't pull in x11. I guess that would require making new versions
>> of a bunch of the metapackages.
>
> debathena-login isn't supposed to require X11 (debathena-workstation
> is supposed to have all the X-related dependencies). It certainly
> doesn't on my Debian sid test machine with debathena-standard
> installed and xserver-xorg not installed (see below). What distro did
> you run into this problem with?
This is probably the fault of debathena-athena-libraries, not
debathena-login.
- Evan
