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


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