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

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Wed Oct 27 18:07:41 UTC 2010


Sergei Golovan, le Wed 27 Oct 2010 21:51:15 +0400, a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> wrote:
> > The origin of the problem is that foo2zjs, part of the print task,
> > recommends tk8.4 for its printer configuration tool. tk8.4 itself is not
> > very invasive, but xterm is. Maybe you could use replace xterm with xvt
> > (X terminal-emulator similar to xterm, but smaller), which only depends
> > on libx11.
> 
> Well, it really doesn't matter which terminal to use. xvt seems fine to me.
> How do you think, is this bug important enough to be fixed during freeze?

Yes, because it makes the default installation of the Printer server
task quite bigger.

> On the other hand, I'm not so sure now if we really need "wish" entry in
> the menu. May be it's better to remove it completely (not now but after
> a squeeze release though).

I find it useful.

Samuel





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