Bug#533724: gdm: missing dependency locks up keyboard/mouse

Ludovico Cavedon ludovico.cavedon at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 03:52:54 UTC 2009


Hi,
gdm can be run even without an X server (e.g. for remote login), so it
is not correct to have it depend on xorg server components.

It should rather recommend them, but I see it already recommends
xserver-xorg, which in turn depends on the mouse and keyboard drivers.

Are there reasons not to install xserver-xorg but still want to have
other pieces of the xserver? In that case we could add an explicit
Recommends: on these two packages, but not Depends.

My 2 cents,
Cheers,
Ludovico





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