For the xorg source package it looks like the dependency was added long ago just as a convenience to ensure a terminal program was included. Possibly there might be a debian failsafe session that pops it up, but I'm not spotting evidence of such; in any case that wouldn't be important to us.
For the xinit package, xterm is the default program run if no window manager is used, so it's a more legitimate dependency there. However, we use lightdm rather than xinit in our boot process (e.g. creating a ~/.xinitrc that echos to a file and rebooting doesn't generate the file; and I don't see xinit listed in a raring bootchart). xinit is used if you start x using the `startx` command, but that's not really a use case for us. There might be other use cases where xinit is important, but for a regular desktop session I think it may be just vestigial. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xinit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1116791 Title: xterm and gnome-terminal should not be dependencies Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xinit” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, ubuntu-desktop depends on xterm and gnome-terminal. xorg is a dependency as well, and in turn depends on xterm | x-terminal- emulator. Something is wrong here. I'd say either removing the depends on the terminal emulators from ubuntu-desktop or, in case of xorg getting replaced at some point, depend on xterm | x-terminal-emulator here too... Best wishes, Nafallo ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.293 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-4.8-generic 3.8.0-rc6 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-4-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Feb 5 23:58:17 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-09 (485 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20111007.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-07 (60 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1116791/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
