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Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:07:33AM -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>>"Matt Seitz (matseitz)"
>>>"Christopher Faylor" wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to
>>something?
>>
>>One reason I keep asking this question is that I don't understand the
>>rationale against adding xinit.
>
> Yaakov posted the rationale. ÂYou responded to it. ÂAdditional messages
> insisting how much you want this are really pretty pointless.
<quote>
Here's my advice: it would be a better use of your time to install xinit
and accustom yourself to the wonders of X rather than hopelessly trying
to find a way to continue living in the past.
</quote>
<quote>
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.
</quote>
But if TK needs an X server started in must be a installed and is a
dependency of TK to have X server. Yes, one has to start it but why
not require the dependency so that the X server software exists to use
already? I agree with Matt, I'm not getting the angst for adding the
X server as a dependency for TK which requires it. Having to start it
is a different matter.
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