[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#601591: Bug#601591: tk8.4: Should not recommend xterm

[Sergei Golovan]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
>
> ATM tk8.4 recommends xterm. Now that squeeze installs recommends by
> default, that automatically pulls quite a bit of x11 (x11-utils, libgl1,
> libxft, etc. etc.), while I don't see why tk8.4 should recommend xterm.
> Could this be lowered to suggest?

tk8.4 uses x-terminal emulator in its menu item. Currently it's the following:

?package(tk8.4):needs="x11"\
	section="Applications/Programming"\
	title="TkWish8.4"\
	command="x-terminal-emulator -e /usr/bin/wish8.4"

without a terminal the menu item will be non-functional. May be
replacing xterm | x-terminal-emulator dependency by just
x-terminal-emulator will be better? Which terminal will be selected by
aptitude (or apt-get) in this case?

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan