Re: ocaml without X, how?

[Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>]

Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:30:14AM +0100, Remi Vanicat wrote:
>> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> 
>> > It could be done in common with the ocaml-toplevel split also we spoke
>> > about.
>> >
>> > This would mean the following distribution : 
>> >
>> >
>> > ocaml-base : Depends on ocaml-base-nox
>> > ocaml-base-nox
>> >
>> > ocaml-toplevel: depends on ocaml-base
>> > ocaml : depends on ocaml-toplevel
>> > ocaml-native-compilers
>> >
>> > I am not sure i believe that removing X from the ocaml compiler suite is
>> > worth it.
>> >
>> > Alternatively, we could split the libraries out of the ocaml package,
>> > but again, is it worth the effort ?
>> 
>> Well, I don't know for splitting the libraries, but if people began to
>> wrote application in ocaml that are useful on server, to be able to
>> install such an application without installing xlib is worth it (I
>> believed). 
>> 
>> By the way, it seem that some of our user want it, so this mean that
>> at least it have a value for them.
>
> Yeah, ok, but splitting the X dependent ocaml-base stuff would be enough
> for that, was i was talking about would be a package with the ocaml
> compilers, and another with the libraries (well at least the otherlibs).
>
> Since these are only needed at development, and are statically builtinto
> the binary, i don't see the real need for this, which is why i am
> asking.

Well, sure we should not make too many package, so we have to make a
choice. So I suppose that we don't need more than to split the X
dependent ocaml-base stuff

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Rémi Vanicat