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Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xavid)
Sat Jan 24 21:38:11 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.2.00.0901231515370.6903@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:37:11 -0500
On 2009/01/24, at 20:16, Tim Abbott wrote:
> How much stuff does x11-common bring in? It's not supposed to
> actually include an X server.
Yeah, that's my mistake. It doesn't install an X server, just a bunch
of X-related libraries. It still seems odd to install X programs
(xcluster, xdsc, etc.) without an X server.
~Xavid
> 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
>>
