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 Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
