Bug#57367: Bug#200264: tetex's dependencies on texdoctk, dvipdfm, perl-tk

[Stefan Ulrich <stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:

> On 20.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hi all,

>> texdoctk had a Depends on perl-tk, tetex-extra had and tetex-bin
>> now has a Suggests: perl-tk. We can discuss whether Recommends fits
>> better, but in any case we won't make it a hard Depends.
>> 
>> Therefore it would be good to provide a helpful error message that
>> tells the user to install perl-tk. Is it possible to write
>> something like this in perl?
>> 
> I'm sure, that it is possible. Unfortunately texdoctk will not be
> called from the CLI every time, so we have to pop up window to get
> the attention of the user. This can be done using perl-tk, but
> without? Maybe it is more easy to write a little C-program to pop up
> a window. Unfortunately I've never written a program for XFree...
> Anyway I would raise up the Suggest to Recommends.

If all else fails:
   xmessage "Please install perl-tk"

-- 
Stefan Ulrich