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Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xavid)
Fri Jan 23 00:44:42 2009
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Xavid <xavid@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0901221620270.14594@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:43:41 -0500
On 2009/01/22, at 19:41, 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 on a newly autoinstalled Hardy Heron XVM, on which I then used
the install-debathena.sh script. It looks like debathena-clients
depends on debathena-xdsc, which being an X interface to discuss
requires X11.
athena% aptitude why x11-common
i debathena-login Depends debathena-standard
i A debathena-standard Depends debathena-clients
i A debathena-clients Depends debathena-xdsc
i A debathena-xdsc Depends libxt6
i A libxt6 PreDepends x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0)
~Xavid
