Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> If your examples are like B1 is a console program and B2 an X program >> and P doesn't want to pull in X for console users then splitting is >> the right thing to do. isdnutils would be example of having split due >> to this in the past. > > Policy (11.8.1) says that you should only split your package into X and > non-X parts if it is higher priority than the X libraries (which are > optional). isdnutils doesn't seem to qualify. > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
People with their small headless isdn routers didn't feel like installing X on them just to be able to install isdn-utils at all. Enough people wished for a split and it was done. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]