On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 11:19:07AM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > I recently upgraded to potato. > > > > Now X starts and immediately dies. Why would this be? > > This is (probably) a known bug in -9. Upgrade to -10. > > > What are the minimum packages necessary to run X under potato (or in > > general)? > > xfree86-common > xlib6g > xbase-clients > xserver-common > xserver-(svga, s3v, mach64, ? -- depends on your video card) > xfonts-base > xfonts-75dpi (depending on your X clients you *might* be able to scrape by > without this one) > > You will probably want a window manager and a terminal emulator as well. > > Read the extended description of xfree86-common as well. >
hi why -10 insists on having tons of stuff installed i really don't use? like xfs, or rstart(d), or twm (is there any person alive who uses twm?), or xmh, or xterm, or... regards OK