[Aptitude-devel] New dependencies of aptitude

Obey Arthur Liu arthur at milliways.fr
Wed Nov 12 14:04:47 UTC 2008


Nelson A. de Oliveira a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> With the new version of aptitude (0.5.0), wouldn't it be nice to have a
> version that has no dependencies on graphical libraries?
> My opinion is that aptitude should be the same as it is now (< 0.5.0,
> without dependencies on libgtk, etc) and that a new package should be
> created (aptitude-gtk?).

Hi,

This is perfectly possible. There's the --disable-gtk ./configure option
that does that at build-time. In the meantime, you can force the ncurses
version with "aptitude --no-gui".
Give aptitude-gtk a try anyway and give us any suggestions.

Regards

Arthur

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