[Bug 1116791] Re: xterm and gnome-terminal should not be dependencies

[Bryce Harrington]

For the xorg source package it looks like the dependency was added long
ago just as a convenience to ensure a terminal program was included.
Possibly there might be a debian failsafe session that pops it up, but
I'm not spotting evidence of such; in any case that wouldn't be
important to us.

For the xinit package, xterm is the default program run if no window
manager is used, so it's a more legitimate dependency there.  However,
we use lightdm rather than xinit in our boot process (e.g. creating a
~/.xinitrc that echos to a file and rebooting doesn't generate the file;
and I don't see xinit listed in a raring bootchart).  xinit is used if
you start x using the `startx` command, but that's not really a use case
for us.  There might be other use cases where xinit is important, but
for a regular desktop session I think it may be just vestigial.

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Title:
  xterm and gnome-terminal should not be dependencies

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “xinit” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
   Hi,

  ubuntu-desktop depends on xterm and gnome-terminal. xorg is a
  dependency as well, and in turn depends on xterm | x-terminal-
  emulator. Something is wrong here. I'd say either removing the depends
  on the terminal emulators from ubuntu-desktop or, in case of xorg
  getting replaced at some point, depend on xterm | x-terminal-emulator
  here too...

  
  Best wishes, Nafallo

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.293
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-4.8-generic 3.8.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-4-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Feb  5 23:58:17 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-09 (485 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20111007.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-07 (60 days ago)

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