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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

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.

H. 
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