On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Josh Triplett wrote:
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:05:57PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Josh Triplett wrote:On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:41:28PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Josh Triplett wrote:xterm Recommends: x11-utils Please consider noting the reason for this recommendation in the package description. A quick review of the contents of x11-utils didn't suggest any obvious reason why xterm might want it.probably because luit is bundled in with this collection. (appres is another likely reason).Ah, luit makes sense; so, uxterm needs x11-utils to handle non-UTF-8 locales?That sounds correct.How about the following addition to the package description, then: " xterm Recommends x11-utils for the "luit" Unicode-to-locale translation helper, which uxterm needs in order to handle non-UTF-8 locales. "
something like that s/in order to/to/g
(I also wonder whether koi8rxterm has some similar need, in which case this description should mention that as well.)
It might... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net