Greetings, and thanks for your helpful feedback!
You might have not noticed that xmaxima is already split out into a package of the same name. The tk dependence in maxima stems from the omplotdata script, which is a wish script. This is one of two plotting options in maxima, the other being mgnuplot. I think the tk is the default still in 5.9.1. Upstream is chaning the default to gnuplot, which would then even make maxima independent of X as gnuplot graphics on terminals is quite good. Don't eally know how to avoid this at this point though without disabling plotting or changing the upstream source to change the default to gnuplot. Take care, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: maxima > Version: 5.9.1-7 > > the X dependence, via the (also large) tk dependence, is *only* for > the one file... the xmaxima tk/tcl GUI script, which is not required > in order to access the maxima symbolic engine itself. > > there are alternative GUIs to the xmaxima script (such as TeXMacs and > Emacs maxima/imaxima modes), and also command line mode is available > from the maxima lisp-based engine itself... X is certainly not a > requirement for this package to be fully functional as a symbolic > package! > > i request that maxima be split into 2 packages... maxima (containing > the engine) and maxima-xmaxima (containing just the xmaxima tk script). > > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
