On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:50:35PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> I've been doing only minimal installs of Factory lately. I also set
> solver.onlyRequires=true and use only zypper for package management.

Hmm. Looking for trouble?

> That means patterns shouldn't be installed, yet they seem to be
> anyway.

No idea how patterns are treated in that case.

> Today I notice on such an rv380 installation that I had incompletely
> installed Xorg even though KDE 4.8.4 works using startx, but KDM
> didn't, and still doesn't for reasons unknown to me.
> 
> In trying to get KDM to work I noticed xorg-x11 hadn't been
> installed, so I did zypper in xorg-x11. That resulted in 4 packages
> to install, including twm and xdm.

xorg-x11 has become a meta package to collect all required and possibly useful
X sample apps like

xdm, xmodmap, ...

> Why on a system with kdm already installed are twm and xdm required?

xdm scripts are used by kdm (and I believe also by gdm). twm is still used as
a fallback by the xdm init script.

Stefan

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