stan wrote: > I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying > to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible. > > I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect, > and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can see > "recomends", but depends?
x-window-system is just a metapackage, one-stop-shopping when you want a complete X installation. If that's not what you want, don't install it. Instead, you can look at its list of dependencies and install individually the ones you want. x-window-system-core is the only really essential one. twm and xterm are a good idea just in case someday you somehow get into a situation where your regular window manager or X console emulator don't work. The rest are up to you. Craig
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