Re: xserver-xorg rdepends

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 17:02 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl> writes:
>> 
>> >> Any objections?
>> >
>> > Yes. Recent xservers need hal for various input systems to work
>> > correctly. So instead of crippling the xserver you can keep a crippled
>> > version in your personal tree or overlay.
>> 
>> Fully support to keep hal as rdepends.
>
> This seems like an odd point of view.  There are various other things
> that the xserver requires for full operation (fonts, video drivers and
> other modules for example), none of which are listed in RDEPENDS.  It
> isn't obvious to me that hal is any more important than those.

Point taken!

Yes your argument changed my mind and I support the removal. This
looks more logical to use same criterion for those packages.

+1

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