Re: [Nolug] XDM - Debian Question

>
>x-window-system, a "meta" package, does depend on xdm, because it is
>supposed to be a package which merely has dependencies such that if
>they are filled, you will have a complete X system with a display
>manager. Removing "x-window-system" does not remove you X installation
>at all. (try it: apt-get remove --dry-run xdm). Dependencies aren't
>such that you need xdm to run X.
>
>Just FYI, if you want to quickly find out what packages depend on each
>other, you can do "apt-cache depends xdm" (gives you the dependencies
>xdm has) or "apt-cache rdepends xdm" (gives you the packages which depend
>on xdm)
>

Thanks for all the reponses regarding my question about XDM. Very informative. In the next couple of days, I am going to put them to work and get rid of XDM.

Thanks again.

George

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