On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:40:40 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greets, > > When installing X (basically apt-get install xserver-xorg or, what i > usd just now, apt-get install xfce4) in depends on ALL the input and > output drivers it can find. I only have one graphics card and the > keyboard+mouse are probably provided by one input driver. > > Are there any ways to circumvert this? If i find out just exactly > which drivers i need, and then install X, will it 'see' that and not > install drivers?
$ aptitude why xfce4 xserver-xorg-video-all p xfce4 Recommends xorg i xorg Depends xserver-xorg i xserver-xorg Depends xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-2 You can uninstall xserver-xorg-video-all and all unused drivers as long as you keep at least one package that provides "xserver-xorg-video-2". The same holds for xserver-xorg-input-all and the individual input drivers. If you install the correct video-* and input-* packages before you install xfce4 then apt-get should not pull in the *-all packages because the alternative dependency on *-2 is already satisfied. (However, I did not test this with apt-get; I can only confirm that aptitude handles this case correctly.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org