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

[Oliver Grawert]

oh, and i wonder if instead of breaking xinit for the users that use it
by dropping the dep or demoting xterm to x-terminal-emulator if we could
probably just get away with not shipping it at all on the desktop
(indeed that gets us in debugging hell where users are asked to run
startx to produce a log etc, but we could just document that you have to
install xinit in such cases)

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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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