duplicate startup files

[kieran]

Binary package hint: xinit

# grep "x11-" /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | grep etc
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/init.d/x11-common
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99x11-common_start
/var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent

# grep "xorg-" /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | grep etc
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xinit.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xorg-common_start
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xinit.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xorg-common_ssh-agent
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xinit.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xorg-common_determine-startup
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xinit.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30xorg-common_xresources
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xinit.list:/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20xorg-common_process-args

duplicate files between packages cause multiple, nested wrapper applications (dbus, ssh-agent) to be invoked on X startup.

[gatopeich (gatoguan-os)]

Xsession.d files from xinit package are to be removed.

- 20xorg-common_process-args only one different line, unmeaningful if not wrong

- 30xorg-common_xresources just adds a _malformed_ invocation option for xrdb

- 50,90,99xorg* : exact copies of the ones in x11-common

* xinit session files are dated 2004, whereas the ones in x11-common are from 2005

My suggestion is to remove Xsession.d files from xinit if it has to live along with x11-common.

Exactly what does xinit provide today?

[Jan Van Buggenhout (chipzz)]

Gatopeich,

I think your last assertion is incorrect, in that the files should be removed from x11-common instead of from xinit, since a lot of library packages depend on x11-common (which may be considered a bug in itself), even though those libraries don't need these scripts (consider the case of a headless server with X11 libs installed; it won't be starting any X sessions, so these files are not needed).