On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:21:02PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> I thought a long time about this. The reason leading me to this
> direction were:
> 
> - 9menu if quite tiny. The binary of it is smaller than the
>   ruby bindings of ratpoison, and the binary make the largest part of
>   the package. The whole unpacked package, even when rounding all files
>   to block sizes, would fit within the changelog.Debian.gz of ratpoison.
> 
> - There is no way to specify that 9menu should be installed when menu
>   is installed.
> 
>   If menu is installed, all halfly capable window managers offer to
>   start ratpoison with a simple click into the menu. I'd much prefer
>   to have a nice way back when someone accidentially clicks on
>   ratpoison, so that admins can install ratpoison for the power users
>   with a clear conscience.
> 
> - Least I don't know how to calculate the window manager priority when
>   there is a menu but not always...

This is all good and well, but none of the reasons make ratpoison
require the use of 9menu, which means that ratpoison should not specify
a Depends: on 9menu.

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