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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:45:26PM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote:
>> Charles Wilson wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I could certainly see splitting the distribution into two packages. This 
>>> means that 'gdb -w' would fail in strange and wonderful ways if the 
>>> "insight" package with all of its tcl scripts were not installed, 
>>> but...maybe that's okay.
>> This already happened in the past (for Vim):
>>
>> $ vim -g
>> E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time
>>
>> $ gvim
>>
>> and nobody seems to complain about it.
> 
> If insight is changed to rely on X, I will split the packages.  I'm not
> going to make gdb rely on X.

Even if unrelated with my post, your point of view is clear and I agree 
with it.

> I already said this once in this thread and, really, it is pretty
> obvious.

Yes.

> 
> cgf

Ciao,
	Danilo Turina

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