On 09/01/2010 10:18 PM, Ariel wrote: > > You may be able to handle this by doing: > > Depends: x-terminal-emulator > Recommends: xterm > > This way in the normal case xterm will be installed, but someone > (i.e. a more advanced user) can uninstall it if they wish, but in > any case a terminal emulator will be available. > > -Ariel > >
Hi Ariel, The problem is that not all packages that provide x-terminal-emulator will work with clusterssh, and we definitely don't want to install the package and have it be broken. There are details and discussion of this already in the bug report. More advanced users can always configure up the terminal they want, and I just don't buy the argument that having to install the xterm package on a modern system is some kind of burden. As is in the bug report, rxvt is smaller, but then the choice is arbitrary, and I don't get the impression that clusterssh is commonly installed on embedded systems. The best solution (at least for this type of issue) would be if all packages that provide x-terminal-emulator also supported, by Debian policy, the allowSendEvents property. However, they may be valid arguments for why a terminal doesn't want/need to implement this. Cheers, tony
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