X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19GA7edIfkRtrStcTmea3im Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:15:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem Message-ID: <20120301011504.GA19191@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C3129F4A01 AT xmb-sjc-233 DOT amer DOT cisco DOT com> <1330563447 DOT 7632 DOT 19 DOT camel AT YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1330563447.7632.19.camel@YAAKOV04> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 06:57:27PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:43 -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> Would it help to add "xinit" to the requirements for tcl-tk and other >> packages that now require an X11 server? >> >> I know that there are some use cases where "xinit" isn't actually >> required. But would the benefit (fewer problem reports from new users) >> be worth the cost (installing "xinit" for some users who don't actually >> require it)? > >Asking the same question in a dozen different ways won't change the >answer. > >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. I agree 100% but this now qualifies as a FAQ so maybe we should add an entry about tcl/tk. 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. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple