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console-tools package

  1. Bug #690118
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 690118

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A programmer (acplusplusprogrammer) wrote : Re: [Bug 690118] Re: consolechars package removes xorg windows server

Yes, I know. After that I solved the problem with setfont, but still I
think it's quite inconvenient that a package uninstalls the graphical
server. I think it should be quite clear to people who are going to
install console-tools that they will lose any GUI. Just a suggestion :)

On 12/17/2010 12:27 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Why not use setfont instead? It's installed by default, and it replaces
> consolechars.
>
> console-tools is still in the archive because there may still be weird
> special cases that require it, but I don't think this is one of them.
>