On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:52:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I just did a new sarge install yesterday and I'm getting this annoying > email as well. This system has xutils 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4. On another > sarge system I have, I can see that the missing file is part of > xbase-clients, but installing xutils does not depend on xbase-clients. That's correct. > Maybe atobm should be in xbase-clients along with bitmap and bmtoa > instead of in xutils? Possibly; but my rule for distinguishing xbase-clients from xutils was that programs in the former are linked against X libraries, and programs in the latter are not. My thinking was that I wanted to make as many utilities as possible available to people who wanted non-X systems. > I'm sure there's a reason it's needed in xutils that I'm not aware of. It can be placed there without making xutils depend on X libraries. > If that's the case, then maybe xutils should depend on xbase-clients, That would defeat the purpose of xutils. > or at least this man page should be handled differently. I agree with that. > I'm promoting a switch from RedHat to Debian at work, and a nightly > annoying email about a broken symlink from a newly-installed system is > egg on my face! Shouldn't those emails be weekly? When I get mails like this because of kaffe (long story), they only arrive weekly, not nightly. Nevertheless I agree that this is highly annoying and should be fixed. > Omitting xbase-clients was an oversight on my part; I > am going to install it on that machine anyway. You might be interested in the x-window-system-core or x-window-system metapackages, which require you to remember less. > Still, the package dependencies should have kept me from getting into > this broken reference state. I agree that people who elect to install xutils and xbase-clients should not be spammed by cron about broken manpage symlinks. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must confess to being surprised Debian GNU/Linux | by the magnitude of incompatibility branden@debian.org | with such a minor version bump. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Manoj Srivastava
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