Hello Alexis, Am 05.09.21 um 23:42 schrieb Alexis PM: > But changing the dependency declaration from 'x11-utils' to 'x11-utils | > zenity | kdialog' makes a tiling manager user have to have x11-utils (or > zenity or kdialog) installed and allows a user of xfce+zenity or > lxde+zenity to not have to install x11-utils.
that's a useful suggestion and I think I can modify the part in d/control that way. Coming up with a patch or a proposal what the reporter like to change is always better as it help to not get into misreadings. > The problem with the x11-utils package is that it is not just xmessage, > but populates the system and the menu with a dozen additional programs > including a display information utility for X, an X event displayer, a > glyph displayer, two X font browsers/selectors/displayers, xkill, an X > client displayer,... For anyone setting up a desktop with a few > carefully chosen applications, having to install the full suite of > applications 'x11-utils' is counterintuitive. I've a slight different view still on this. I don't see much usefulness in completely dropping x11-utils and get rid of about 720kB installed size, but have now to deal with which exact package list instead the user need to know now. Disk space isn't a problem any more on graphical work places. -- Regards Carsten
