On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:43 -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > Would it help to add "xinit" to the requirements for tcl-tk and other > packages that now require an X11 server? > > I know that there are some use cases where "xinit" isn't actually > required. But would the benefit (fewer problem reports from new users) > be worth the cost (installing "xinit" for some users who don't actually > require it)?
Asking the same question in a dozen different ways won't change the answer. Using X requires user intervention to start an X server first. No amount of automatic dependencies will change this, and therefore I don't expect that the number of questions would change one iota. > In the case of packages that have both a console mode and an X11 mode, > perhaps the package could be split into separate packages, as was done > with "git", "git-gui", and "gitk"? Can you provide examples of packages for which this isn't already the case? Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
