[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1469] Option to not install extra utilities like xeyes, xedit, etc.

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------- Additional Comments From g4c9z at unb.ca  2004-09-28 14:40 -------
> other stuff like "xedit" are more problematic as they are usefull tools

I'm not saying they're not useful tools, I'm just saying very often people want
X Windows but don't need those tools.  It seems to me that if a software package
can be split up into more than 1 independant, unrelated piece of functionality,
then it really should be more than one package.  After that the smaller packages
can be combined to make optional large packages for people who just like to
"install everything".

So if it was my decision, I would make a package for the X Windows base, one
each for xedit, xeyes, etc., one containing all of xedit, xeyes, etc., and
finally one with everything like there is now.  This way X.org would require
less disk space and, more importantly, people's filesystems would be simpler in
many cases.        
   
   
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