On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:06:46AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Maybe the Recommends could be replaced by a Suggests: x11-utils. > By now I didn't even know that there is a tool "luit". It's used (when available and if the locale encoding is not UTF-8) by xterm for quite a while. But it doesn't use the X display (unlike the other programs in x11-utils). Moving it to a separate package would only affect xterm and a (probably) small number of direct command-line users. Changing the "recommends" to a "suggests" would have an impact on xterm, since some users would not see luit automatically. As I understand it, the best route would be to get luit available separately and then change the xterm package to recommend luit rather than x11-utils. By the way - the existing version of luit uses libfontenc, which _is_ used by several applications. Take a look at apt-rdepends --reverse libfontenc1 However, in my upgrade, I dispensed with that dependency, so the resulting luit depends only on glibc and libz. That makes it easily portable - unlike most of x11-utils :-) So... decoupling luit (and libfontenc1) from x11-utils will improve the dependencies of both xterm and x11-utils. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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