[920] in athena10
Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Jan 22 19:58:40 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:54:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> 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.
Hmm, that's a good thing to check, though the relevant sid machine already
has debathena-athena-libraries installed (and not xserver-xorg). But
maybe it already has some x-related libraries? The aptitude output would
probably be helpful here.
-Tim Abbott
