On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 21:02:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The problem is not that /usr/bin/X is suid-root. The problem is that > /usr/bin/X is now shipped in a package which is a dependency of *all* of the > X libraries, so you can no longer have a system with X clients only without > pulling in an extra suid binary you don't need. > I can't see the reason why the X libraries (Pre-)Depend on x11-common. AFAICT the Pre-Dependency is needed for packages installing stuff in /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 to ensure that they are proper directories and not symlinks to /usr/X11R6. That doesn't apply to libx11-6 and friends.
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