On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:50:10PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 210-3 > Severity: normal > > It's a little awkward to supply program: > > resize > > with the xterm package because this program is useful on its own. The > xterm is not a good terminal for low end PCs, where rxvt and mini-rxvt > provide same features with much less memory. However the need for > single program resize is still there for other terminal. hmm - rxvt (2.7 for instance) is smaller in some configurations. Not much. If you're only reading its manpage (or reading some mailing list), there's not much to discuss. > REASONING > > It is inconvenient to have to install package 'xterm' just to use > program 'resize'. I assume here that resize does not depend on program > 'xterm' in any way. It has a build-dependency on xterm. I've seen 1-2 comments requesting a package for resize over the past 5-6 years. Perhaps you're interested in making a package? > Also searching for program 'resize' is very hard if you don't know > where it is. If resize were its own package this would also make > program searches intuitive "man resize" mentions xterm several times. rxvt's documentation doesn't offer anything useful regarding "resize". It's nice that rxvt can use resize, but it's a utility written in support of xterm. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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