Bug#334611: tetex-bin: Please compile xdvi with lesstif2

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:42:00AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: 3.0-9
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> >
> > xdvi compiled with lesstif2 works fine, and it does IMHO have
> > a nicer user interface.
> 
> Stefan Ulrich once said that he thinks lesstif support is still
> experimental, therefore I don't fell confident that we can make this the
> default.  But in case that our discussion about the splitting of tetex
> packages leads to a "tetex-bin-nox" and "tetex-bin-x11", we could
> provide tetex-bin-x11-lesstif as an alternative.

If you do this, I'd vote for tetex-bin and tetex-bin-nox.

My personal opinion regarding dependencies on relatively common things 
like X libraries is that people with that much limited space that it 
would matter should better use a distribution like Gentoo that gives 
them even more opportunities like compiling with -Os.

If an extra package is made (that takes space on both the ftp archive 
and the CDs), the default that > 95% of all users want should be a 
tetex-bin package with everything and there's no need to add an -x11 
suffix to the package.

> Adrian, are you interested in helping with the splitting?

I'm sorry, but the time when I was active in Debian is over.

> Regards, Frank

cu
Adrian

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