How many people would chose to use ubuntu Oneiric, use a pre-built binary for Pd-extended, AND not have X? I would hope that small group would reconsider using Oneiric for something a bit more streamlined and would likely be compiling their own minimalist Pd --- certainly not Pd-extended.
I could more easily except the answer of leaving it as "Recommends" if Pd did not use X by default or at least if it returned an error message (in an X window if run from an X window) describing the missing dependency. While one probably exists, I know of no other pre-built binaries in ubuntu which intentionally are missing dependencies preventing them from running in their default modes. Pd's default is to use X. I think vlc might get around this by having a separate vlc-nox binary? If we really have to have binaries for ubuntu that don't depend on tk, I'd recommend that route. -John On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 15:11 -0600, John Harrison wrote: > > Then that would be the case for all stock Oneirics. I think it should be > > depends. This will be confusing for novice users, such as those using > stock > > setups. > > If it would be a 'Depends:', then there wouldn't be a way to install > Pd(-extended) without pulling in a whole X-server setup. I think it > should stay a 'Recommends:'. > > Roman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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