On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: liw >sanvila@ctv.es: liw >> New elvis depends on elf-x11r6lib! liw >> liw >> So you wanted a "minimal" editor and you end up installing XFree. liw > liw >That's the way Debian handles programs that can be used both from liw >a text terminal and from X. This avoids creating two packages, which liw >experience has shown is a bigger problem than requiring the xlib liw >package. Note that you don't need anything else from X installed, liw >just the xlib package, which is fairly small (about less than 2 MB). liw > liw >I'll leave it to the elvis maintainer to close this bug. The elvis pacakge would better suggest X and not depend on it. Its perfectly reasonable to use elvis without X. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5
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