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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] |
| Date | 2022-03-08 21:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <DYOWl-qJx-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 03/08/2022 10:45 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:40:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> "apt-get --no-install-recommends install lightdm" solved #1 and #2.
>> Does that demonstrate a dependency bug?
>
> Most definitely not. X doesn't need the DM to run. Actually there are
> folks out there that want to start up in console mode and start X only
> on demand (I did that, for quite a while, FWIW).
Before I retired I spent decades in customer and engineering support.
Became familiar clashing desires and corner cases.
I wasn't looking at X needing a DM, but rather that if the DE {MATE in
my case} was going to be useful it had to start [preferably automatically].
>
> Disabling recomends is not... recommended by default (I do, but then
> I'm willing to cope with the ocassional fallout).
But I'm on the other side of the quandary.
For my use case, installing recommends degrades my user experience.
A goal of the Debian installer team has been that anyone of any
experience level &/or familiarity with Debian could just install then
compute. They succeeded!
I want to grok Debian's internals well enough to come up with a solution
*I* like ;/! But not be offensive to the rest of the world.
>
> Cheers
>
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Problems with custom install of MATE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 14:20 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-03-08 15:00 +0100
Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 15:50 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 16:10 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 17:00 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 18:10 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-08 17:50 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 21:50 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-08 22:20 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 22:30 +0100
Re: Dependency bug demonstrated???? - was [Re: Problems with custom install of MATE] Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2022-03-08 23:30 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-08 15:40 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 16:00 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-08 16:40 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-08 20:00 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-08 22:20 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-09 01:00 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-03-09 12:40 +0100
Re: Problems with custom install of MATE Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2022-03-09 16:00 +0100
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