On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:29:37PM -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > openssh-client ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openssh-client ) > recommends xauth ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xauth ) > which brings in a lot of X libraries. > > Could instead those X recommendations be moved to another package that > comes with X? So if you have X, you get working X forwarding in ssh, > and if you don't have X you don't?
My experience has been that when I do this I instead get lots of bug reports from confused people wondering why X forwarding isn't working. Note that the case where this really makes a difference is on the server end, where you may well not have a full X installation but may nevertheless need to forward one or two windows. I don't see a way to avoid both sets of problems at once, and the other one seems more numerous ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
