vnc module not requiring X
Victor Pelt
peltco at mail.utexas.edu
Sun Jan 26 17:05:10 GMT 2003
my understanding?
x, glibc, linux (kernel) and windows managers are all left out
but maybe one of the lunar developers could further explain this
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 16:51, Richard Watson wrote:
> Victor Pelt <peltco at mail.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> > i think it was decided that X was an "obvious" dependency and therefore
> > wouldn't be listen as dependency for modules
> >
> > the same applies for windowsmanagers etc
>
> Surely a dependency is a dependency? What measurement of obviousness
> is used to decide what should and shouldn't be listed? What is gained
> by not listing it?
>
> And in any case there are vnc clients that do not require X, so it
> doesn't even seem obvious to me that one would necessarily require
> it.
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Victor Pelt <peltco at mail.utexas.edu>
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