Unneccessary dependency in ubuntu-desktop

[Andrew SB]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Josh Holland<jrh at joshh.co.uk> wrote:
> I have also mailed this to Matt Zimmerman (the maintainer).
>
> $ aptitude show ubuntu-desktop
> # ...
> Depends: # ...
> # ...
>         gnome-system-monitor, gnome-system-tools, >>>gnome-terminal<<<, gnome-themes,
> # ...
>         >>>xterm<<<, yelp, zenity, zip
> # ...
>
> This is on a fully upgraded Jaunty install, but it can't make much
> difference.
>
> Is there any point on requiring two different terminal emulators?
>
> PS, please reply to me directly, as I do not subscribe to the
> {devel,desktop} lists. TIA
>

Looking at the reverse depends of xterm you'll see that xorg depends
on it. It pulls in a set of bare bones apps that can be used with out
a full fledged window manager. But more to the point, gdm also depends
on xterm as it is used for its fail safe terminal.

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio