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Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Jan 24 20:17:55 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:16:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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How much stuff does x11-common bring in? It's not supposed to actually
include an X server.
-Tim Abbott
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Xavid wrote:
>
> 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
>
