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Bug 137303 - xinit should not depend on twm/xclock/xterm
Summary: xinit should not depend on twm/xclock/xterm
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110880
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-06-19 14:50 UTC by Peter Ebden
Modified: 2006-06-19 14:58 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Ebden 2006-06-19 14:50:39 UTC
Currently the x11-apps/xinit package depends on x11-wm/twm, x11-apps/xclock and x11-terms/xterm. Presumably this is because they're run from the default Xsession.

However, it should not be compulsory to install those packages to get a working system; pretty much nobody is going to use Xsession or twm for anything serious, and many people will have some preference to xterm.
I'm not sure what the cleanest solution would be - possibly the dependencies could be moved to xorg-x11 instead, so anyone emerging that would still have a working Xsession, but those that don't want the extra cruft could go with xorg-server instead.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-19 14:58:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110880 ***