On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 06:57:27PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:43 -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> Would it help to add "xinit" to the requirements for tcl-tk and other >> packages that now require an X11 server? >> >> I know that there are some use cases where "xinit" isn't actually >> required. But would the benefit (fewer problem reports from new users) >> be worth the cost (installing "xinit" for some users who don't actually >> require it)? > >Asking the same question in a dozen different ways won't change the >answer. > >Using X requires user intervention to start an X server first. No >amount of automatic dependencies will change this, and therefore I don't >expect that the number of questions would change one iota.
I agree 100% but this now qualifies as a FAQ so maybe we should add an entry about tcl/tk. In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something please be assured that this will not happen. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
