On 2003-08-27(Wed) 17:09:13 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > Anyway, gimp 1.3 is an _optional_ _runtime_ dependency. If you have
> > used gqview before, you'll certainly understand that. At least it's
> > much better than trying to call XV, which is obsolete. Although ee
> > is obsolete too, but it's still in cooker so I don't remove that
> > choice.
> 
> it's ok there since xv was no more provided.
> but it's a little ugly to get runtime error because XYZ program is not
> installed.

Yes, but there's no appropriate solution for this. rpm has no
"suggested" dependency. :-(

Abel

> i agree that we won't add a dependancy for that one since we switch
> from "totally broken" runtime dependancy to "at least it exits in
> contrib" dependancy.
> 
> 

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