*- On 28 Sep, Josip Rodin wrote about "Re: mtools" > On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:13:58AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: >> > How comes mtools depend on xlib6g? I don't use X, and thus I consider it >> > very stupid to have both xlib6g & xfree86-common installed, but I have to >> > if I want mtools installed... >> >> If something supports X it should be compiled with X. This means exactly >> two packages (xlib6g and xfree86-common) are also required, but they're >> reasonably smallish and anything which supports X is going to require >> them anyway, not just mtools. > > Better to fork off another package, which would include X support, and > leave the original package X-free. >
What about the [x]emacs packages. I would hate to see forks of all those things on the mirrors. Maybe a Suggests or Recommends would be better than a Depends. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
