xfree86 lite

[Bob Raymond]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 02:18, m.w.chang wrote:
> it's under a GUI. :)

Tell me how the commands rpm, dpkg, apt-get, and emerge (and I'm sure
there are others) are bound by a GUI.  That's what I call default
package management tool, not some pretty little piece of (often broken)
eye candy that the vendor chose to code to make the newbies happy.

> and most vendors don't list really tell you exactly which packages are 
> related to xfree86 and kde. I merely guessed my way out by rpm -e kde* 
> and xfree*. there may still be related packages.

Like QT, and some distributions package konqueror separately, and then
you have extra programs like koncd.

> as time goes by, I suspect all distributions will no longer offer a 
> xfree-free installation mode.

I really somehow doubt that would happen with Gentoo, and Debian
probably isn't going to change for the next 10-15 years or so.

Bob Raymond