Re: xserver-xfree86 should depend on libxaw7

[Florian Hinzmann <fh@bigfoot.de>]

Hi!


On 15-Sep-2000 Seth R Arnold wrote:

> I don't think is should "depend", unless libxaw happens to be used much
> more often than I think it is. If it isn't used much after install, it
> seems silly to require it for install....
> 
> Perhaps a "suggest" or a "recommend". But "depend" seems entirely too
> strong to me.

A clean way to resolve this would be to seperate xf86cfg
to a seperate package and let that package depend on
all needed libraries including libxaw7.

This has the additional benefit of not hiding the tool for
configuration in a package with an somewhat unrelated name.


    bye
     Florian

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