what to do with GUI common stuff

[Matthijs Mohlmann]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:38:24PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> 
>>So it seems vim shouldn't ship gvim.desktop.  It should be shipped in
>>vim-gtk and/or vim-gnome instead.
> 
> 
> This is the first complaint about the new structure of non conflicting
> vim variants.  We were aware of it: vim-common ships some stuff which is
> needed only by GUI-enabled variants.
> 
> We can ignore the issue (tagging as wontfix the Cc-ed bug), or
> alternatively split an additional "vim-gui-common" package which will
> contain gui related stuff on which only gui enabled variant will depend.
> FWIW that stuff is:
> - pixmaps (bitmap and svg)
> - gui links (/usr/bin/gvim, /usr/bin/gview, ...)
> - gui manpages (pairing with links above)
> - .desktop file
> - gui half of /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common
> 
> The latter solution seems to be more clean, but it requires an
> additional amost empty package.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
That would be an extra package with less then 100kb. I don't think we
want that...

I vote for tagging wontfix.

> Cheers.
> 

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann

PS: hm, message didn't come through last night...