Re: Splitting isdnutils & co. into non-X and X parts
"W. Borgert" <debacle@knorke.in-berlin.de> writes:
> Hallo,
>
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:29:43PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > wait a minute:
> > [19:13 kitchen]/usr/bin> ls -l xmo*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14976 Apr 18 17:54 xmonisdn*
> > [19:14 kitchen]/usr/bin> ls -l xisd*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13264 Apr 18 17:54 xisdnload*
> >
> > A less than 30k package? I think we are trying to use a truck to
> > transmit a letter here. I have a simpler proposal:
> >
> > Just drop the depency on xlib and make it recommend or suggest
> > xlib.
>
> This is not possible - if a user calls one of these
> programs, (s)he will get the error message:
>
> /usr/bin/xyz: error in loading shared libraries: libXyz1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> and (s)he will file a bug report!
That could be easily avoided by a wrapper script that would explain
which packages would need to be installed.
Falk
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