On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > package: aptitude > version: 0.4.3-1 > severity: minor > > Hello! > > It has caught my eye that the packages which are automatically installed > by aptitude depend on the order in which the package names are entered > at the command line. > > I want to install both 'xorg' and 'gnome-desktop-environment' packages > in a freshly debootstrap'd chroot: ... > Please note that xterm is a dependency of xorg that can (and should) be > satisfied alternatively by any other package providing > x-terminal-emulator, in this case gnome-terminal.
But gnome-terminal in turn depends on libraries which are not part of xorg, so it would be unsuitable as a dependency. (rxvt might, kterm might, none of the other x-terminal-emulators that come to mind would be suitable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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