On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:37:20PM +0100, Dennis Stampfer wrote: > I need to split up timeoutd into two packages, because timeoutd-x11 > needs xlibs and timeoutd doesn't. (maybe users want to use timeoutd > on a machine not running X)
Policy 11.8.1:
Programs that can be configured with support for the X Window System
must be configured to do so and must declare any package dependencies
necessary to satisfy their runtime requirements when using the X
Window System. If such a package is of higher priority than the X
packages on which it depends, it is required that either the
X-specific components be split into a separate package, or that an
alternative version of the package, which includes X support, be
provided, or that the package's priority be lowered.
Depending on xlibs adds only a few MB to the size of the installed
system, and does NOT require running X; and there are many other
packages that will depend on xlibs that users will want installed on
non-X-using systems, so the per-package net impact is much less
. I don't see any reason for splitting this into a separate package.
Regards,
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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