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Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> 
>     > How about having a gnuplot-nox package like debian, which satisfies
>     > the dependancy, and having gnuplot-x-drivers available separately?
>     > It could be referenced in the README easily enough, and wouldn't be
>     > too hard to find..
> 
> Currently not only /usr/sbin/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11.exe depends on X
> (which could easily go in separate package) but gnuplot itself depends
> on libgd2 which pulls in X.
> 
> Ciao
>   Volker
> 

Hmm. Debian gets around this by having libgd2 depend on libgd2-noxpm OR 
libgd2-xpm
The former does not require X libs.. Of course, once you start doing 
this for multiple packages, it starts getting complicated, especially as 
I seem to recall Igor saying that setup doesn't support OR dependancies, 
or conflicts..
I'd offer to see about working that into it, except that I haven't the 
foggiest where to begin (not a programmer, but still meaning to learn).
Hm.


Chris
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