On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:35:00AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski writes: > >>> Note, though, that they would still need to *run* X before xdvi will work. > >> Oh, and what about people who use other X servers (like Exceed), or even >> expect to run xdvi remotely via ssh from a Linux machine? Granted, the >> latter group is probably small enough and knowledgeable enough to be able >> to deal with the automatic X dependency... > >Yes, twice. But that's why I brought it up, I think there must be a >sane balance between too many and too few requirements.
I'm entering this discussion late and maybe I've missed some context but if a package needs X to run, then it should require X. We don't have to worry about corner cases like other people's X packages or if they don't need the X server. cgf