Re: Splitting isdnutils & co. into non-X and X parts
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 07:42:29PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:17:35PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
> > What about dividing packages like isdnutils into parts with non-X and X tools ?
>
> This is explicitly in violation of policy 5.8:
>
> : Some programs can be configured with or without support for the X Window
> : System. Typically, binaries produced with support for X will need the X
> : shared libraries to run.
> :
> : Such programs should be configured with X support, and should declare a
> : dependency on xlib6g (which contains X shared libraries). Users who wish to
> : use the program can install just the relatively small xfree86-common and
> : xlib6g packages, and do not need to install the whole of X.
> :
> : Do not create two versions (one with X support and one without) of your
> : package.
>
> If you don't like this policy, don't blame me. I didn't write it and when
> I proposed a revision that would have liberalized the situation, I was shot
> down.
But isn't this what some packages are doing right now? AFAICT xchat is.
There is a xchat-gnome that depends on xlib6g _and_ a xchat-text that doesn't.
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