2010-08-26, 15:54
Yes, I can understand that. Less "capable" users might screw things up quite easily regarding dependencies... On second thought, that's precisely why dependencies should be managed automatically whenever possible.
Having said that, without xbmc-live explicitly requesting the presence of xinit and x11-xserver-utils on the system you end up with a *non working* installation... And what's the point of that?
To my understanding, the whole point packages can work with dependencies is to facilitate the installation process.
Imagine what would happen if you issued a 'sudo apt-get install xbmc' and dependencies wouldn't install auto-magically... is not much fun to install 400MB+ of dependencies by hand.
So my question remains... why, oh why aren't xinit and x11-xserver-utils explicit dependencies of xbmc-live?
Makes no sense, unless I'm missing something...
Anyways, trac ticket created with request: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9993
hudo
Having said that, without xbmc-live explicitly requesting the presence of xinit and x11-xserver-utils on the system you end up with a *non working* installation... And what's the point of that?
To my understanding, the whole point packages can work with dependencies is to facilitate the installation process.
Imagine what would happen if you issued a 'sudo apt-get install xbmc' and dependencies wouldn't install auto-magically... is not much fun to install 400MB+ of dependencies by hand.
So my question remains... why, oh why aren't xinit and x11-xserver-utils explicit dependencies of xbmc-live?
Makes no sense, unless I'm missing something...
Anyways, trac ticket created with request: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9993
hudo