Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread James Blanford
On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: >> They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate >> package management, require continual maintenance, open security >> holes and worst of all, slow the boot process signif

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-12 Thread James Blanford
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 When I upgraded to this version of xserver-xorg, I was required to also install discover1, discover1-data, libdiscover1, mdetect, xresprobe laptop-detect and dmidecode as dependencies. Debian policy states, "The Depends field should be used if the depended-