ACro <a...@bluebottle.com> writes: >> Does this list look a little ridiculous? > > It doesn't :-) AFAIK this is the default behaviour when installing > xserver-xorg, > although not all packages may really be needed.
[...] Thanks for the details regarding the xserver stuff. Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> writes: [...] >> Note the nest of xservers involved. > > There's just one X server, X.org. The list just contains a lot of > drivers for different video and input hardware. That's because lxde > depends on x-display-manager (or gdm3) and that depends on xserver-xorg > and that in turn depends on xserver-xorg-video-all and > xserver-xorg-input-all which pull in all those dependencies. [...] Thanks to you too for the details about the xservers and drivers phenomena. > BTW, 'aptitude why $packagename' tells you why it wants to have a > certain package installed. Nice tip ... thanks Nice unix command line too... It took me a bit to figure out why it would not copy paste to the cmdline. Finally I realized that the mail formatting had broke a line you probably did not expect and so there was no newline escape following `END' in your message. With that in place.... it plinks out the size in short order. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcizyd8a....@newsguy.com
