Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > What about upgrades? Initial installs probably aren't a problem, but > people upgrading without metapackages will get xbase-clients and not xinit! > (thus preventing them from starting X at all, at least using the common > methods) I don

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:31:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 2) Anybody who manages to not have the metapackages installed, > and gets xinit but not xbase-clients, may end up wondering > where that stuff is, and will file bugs instead o

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > Please address only the core of the proposal, which is: > > To create a new package "xinit" containing the programs xauth, xinit, > and startx, and their manual pages. > > Comments? Go for it. It will be a very big boon for people that need to imple

PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-23 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please followup to .] The clamor for a small package containing just what you need to get the X server started is becoming a roar in the wake of XFree86 4.x, where Mesa-enabled X clients -- with their concomitant library dependencies -- are part of xbase-clients. Some people, with justification,