On Thu, 2 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > I upgraded X to ELF from .99R6, and after going through xbase, xfnt*, > xlib and some clients, xdm didn't start the server. I had to > re-decipher all the mess of xdm which I obviously had forgotten :-(
This is fixed in xbase-3.1.2-9, uploaded today. > I also have a suggestion about fonts: I thought I had installed all > the xfnt*, but I had forgotten xfntbase... This means that the server > stops when it doesn't find the font "fixed". Considering that I had > those fonts in the previous installation and that something removed > them, so it wasn't my fault, I think it'd be nice to have a dependency > for xfntbase either in xserver or xfnt^base* (in zsh notation), or > another suitable place. No, a dependency is not the right thing to do; it is quite possible to run the X server without any fonts being installed. The idea of having non-base font packages depend on the base package is interesting, and I'll consider it for the future. It'll probably be reduced in strength to a "Recommends" line, though. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]