Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

[Eric Blake]

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On 03/01/2012 10:53 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
> "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You don't think that Setup telling the user "package xyz requires
> package xinit" might at least tip off some users that running xyz now
> requires starting an X server?
> 
> Even if it doesn't reduce the questions, would it at least reduce the
> problem of users now having to run Setup a second time to download and
> install the xinit package?

While I can't control whether Yaakov adds xinit as a dependency to
tcl-tk, I personally wouldn't mind adding xinit as a prereq to gitk and
git-gui, since I maintain that package.  There's still that annoyance
factor that just depending on xinit won't get X running, but at least it
will let you download all the bits in one run of setup.exe instead of
hitting the FAQ and finding out you have to rerun setup.exe.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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