On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 18:02:48 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > (Aside from the whole "wrong bug report" question) > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:31:17AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > The xorg metapackage depends on a few font packages. > > Shouldn't the X server itself depend on xfonts-base? This appears to have > been the case in sarge. The 'fixed' font must always be available AIUI, so > why should the metapackage need to be pulled in before xfonts-base is? > I don't think it was the case in sarge. Fonts can be provided via a font server, so they don't need to be available on the filesystem for X to work. In sarge xserver-common seems to *suggest* xfonts-base, but there are no "Depends" as far as I can see, so similarly you had to install x-window-system-core for fonts to be pulled in.
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