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Please enter the "mail name" of your system.

This is the

hostname portion of the address to be shown on outgoing

news and mail messages.

The default is

syshostname

, your system's host name.

Mail

name ["

syshostname

"]:

where syshostname is the output of

hostname   fqdn

.

11.7 News system configuration

All the configuration files related to the NNTP (news) servers and clients should be located

under

/etc/news

.

There are some configuration issues that apply to a number of news clients and server packages

on the machine. These are:

/etc/news/organization

A string which should appear as the organization header for all

messages posted by NNTP clients on the machine

/etc/news/server

Contains the FQDN of the upstream NNTP server, or localhost if the

local machine is an NNTP server.

Other global files may be added as required for cross package news configuration.

11.8 Programs for the X Window System

11.8.1 Providing X support and package priorities

Programs that can be configured with support for the X Window System must be configured to

do so and must declare any package dependencies necessary to satisfy their runtime require 

ments when using the X Window System. If such a package is of higher priority than the X

packages on which it depends, it is required that either the X specific components be split into

a separate package, or that an alternative version of the package, which includes X support, be

provided, or that the package's priority be lowered.

11.8.2 Packages providing an X server

Packages that provide an X server that, directly or indirectly, communicates with real input

and display hardware should declare in their control data that they provide the virtual package

xserver

.

5

5

This implements current practice, and provides an actual policy for usage of the

xserver

virtual package

which appears in the virtual packages list. In a nutshell, X servers that interface directly with the display and input

hardware or via another subsystem (e.g., GGI) should provide

xserver

. Things like

Xvfb

,

Xnest

, and

Xprt

should not.