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has caused the Debian Bug report #613966,
regarding tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of
xorg
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Package: tasksel
Version: 2.89
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
the changelog of xorg-server (2:1.9.4-2) reveals the following:
In a nutshell, one may want to choose between installing:
- xserver-xorg-core: the server itself, with no strings attached.
- xserver-xorg: pulls the server and drivers, contains the X wrapper
and some documentation.
- xorg: pulls xserver-xorg as well as various X11 clients and fonts.
Currently the desktop task of tasksel installs the whole xorg package and thus
pulls in a lot of utility packages. I think tasksel should only install the
xserver-xorg package instead. I mean, do we really need twm and xcalc when
tasksel installs an entire desktop environment?
- Fabian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.89 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
tasksel suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/title:
tasksel/desktop: gnome
tasksel/first: Desktop environment, Standard system
tasksel/tasks:
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.86
I believe this was fixed with this change:
* task-desktop: stop depending on xorg packages directly, to get prepared
for wayland. See MR!46 for more details.
If you are still experiencing an issue similar to this with Debian
Testing or Unstable, please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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