On 2009/07/27 19:19, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > >I would be much happier to split tkmib off to a subpackage and making > >that depend on p5-SNMP and Tk. I don't think it makes sense to have > >an optional UI tool force the whole SNMP daemon to depend on X. > I thought about moving tkmib to net/net-snmp,-perl and add x11/tk as > a run dependency to that, would you prefer to add another subpackage > only for tkmib ?
personally, I think that makes sense, and now I look at other OS it seems at least FreeBSD and Debian do things that way. I'm not opposed to X dep's where it makes sense, but I think this is one occasion where it doesn't really give any benefits, and somebody who is actually trying to install tkmib is unlikely to think of p5-SNMP when they try and decide which package they need to install to get it.
