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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:28:05 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:54:23AM -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>>>"Christopher Faylor" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they
>>>> think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something
>>>> please be assured that this will not happen.
>>>
>>>OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something?
>>
>> There is nothing in what I wrote which would suggest that adding xinit as
>> a dependency was a possibility.
>
>I agree with Matt.  If TK is requiring the use of the X server then
>the X server should be a package dependency of TK.  It wasn't a
>dependency before because the X server wasn't needed but now the X
>server is needed to use TK.

TK does not require an X server running on the same system.  This has
been explained in this very thread.

If you have points to make, don't make them with a <aol>"me too"</aol>
unless you're planning on addressing the issues that Yaakov raised.
Otherwise you're just wasting bandwidth.

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