X doesn't fill the whole screen

[David Nusinow]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:42:14PM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote:
> > This is a known issue, and the
> > debian-installer works around it if you install the desktop task, but I
> > don't plan to fix it until well after etch ships.
> 
> Why isn't xserver-xorg configured to depend on read-edid ?

Because it's simply not a requirement for the package. It's part of the
recommends for the package (which aptitude or a similiar apt frontend
should handle properly) because the server can run just fine without it. I
have a lot of sympathy for the desire to have it as a dependency, but we
need to follow Debian policy and use the package dependency fields for what
they really are. Plenty of people would be very unhappy with extra unneeded
packages being installed on their system. 

The real solution will be to make the server package not use any outside
programs for configuration, but that's only on my TODO list for after we
ship the modular packages.

 - David Nusinow