Re: X authentication and su (Re: changing framebuffer device owner during login)
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:50:38PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > > My current plan is to submit a wishlist report against xbase-clients
> > > at some point during the week-end. If I get confirmation that this can
> > > go into Debian then I'll write a man page (otherwise it's just going to
> > > be me using the script so it's not worth writing a man page).
> >
> > Why not package it separately? It seems useful in its own right.
>
> It's not very useful if you don't have X.
That's why we have a "Depends:" header...
> And making a package for
> just one 8KB file seems a bit over the top.
Nah. It's a great program, but if you don't know you have it on your
system, you can't use it. Since there no such "sux" in upstream
xbase-clients, most people won't know they have it on their system --
unless you package it separately...
You could give it an "Enhances: xbase-clients", though.
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