Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org> (07/02/2011): > xorg depends on many more packages than xserver-xorg does. My > understanding is: When you want the minimal stuff, you install > xserver-xorg. When you want almost everything to get a "normal" X > running, you install xorg. But I didn't check if there was still a > point in not installing xorg recently.
I'm tempted to say that if people want something really minimal, they should be able to install xserver-xorg-{core,input-foo,video-bar}. As for x11-xkb-utils && xkb-data, they could be recommended/depended on by the server (since xserver-xorg-core depends on xserver-xorg currently). Also, we could make xorg depend on stuff listed in xserver-xorg, and only recommend other packages. This way, people can still use the xorg metapackage to get everything installed by default. And those who want something more minimal can still ignore the recommends? xorg: ===== libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1 libglu1-mesa x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xfonts-100dpi (>= 1:1.0.0-1) xfonts-75dpi (>= 1:1.0.0-1) xfonts-base (>= 1:1.0.0-1) xfonts-scalable (>= 1:1.0.0-1) xfonts-utils xinit xkb-data xorg-docs-core xterm | x-terminal-emulator xserver-xorg: ============= libgl1-mesa-dri [RECOMMENDS] libc6 (>= 2.7) x11-xkb-utils xkb-data (>= 1.4) xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.9.0.901) xserver-xorg-input-all | xorg-driver-input xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video KiBi.
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