Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package that is

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package that is separate from X and depends on the right set of tools? I like

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package that is

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:22:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: No, read-edid and mdetect are installed by base-config (but see bug #258690), prior to package installation. They are later removed, iff X was not installed. [...] Since X doesn't declare a dependency on them, selecting them for