Bug#200264: Bug#57367: Bug#200264: tetex's dependencies on texdoctk, dvipdfm, perl-tk
Stefan Ulrich <stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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"
That would give us an other Dependency: xbase-clients. Not much less
disk space then perl-tk, and probably more dependencies in the chain.
What will X do when a script started by a menu option starts an
interactive shell - will it be so clever to fire up
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm? If not, we need more X dependencies in order to
display a proper error message; in this case we can as well raise perl-tk
to Depends.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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