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

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

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote :

> Hilmar Preusse &amp;lang=en">hille42@web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > In general the solution sounds good, however I still prefer a
> > message, which is visible even if texdoctk was started using the
> > Debian-menu system.... just to prevent lame bug reports.
> 
> Couldn't we just test whether xmessage exists and use it if yes, but use
> dialog or echo otherwise? If texdoctk is started from a menu or icon,
> xbase-clients will usually be installed.

That was what I meant, yes ... I also had assumed that xterm and xmessage
were in the same Xclients package, but apparently they aren't. So you
could try xmessage first, then xterm -e "/bin/echo ...", then stderr.
(Does one also need to check for whether X is running at all?)

As for Hilmar's suggestion of writing a small X program - wouldn't that
also depend on Xlib/Xt and whatever toolkit you chose to write the
program in?

-- 
Stefan Ulrich