Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

[Robert Miles]

On 3/1/2012 1:38 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 03/01/2012 01:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 03/01/2012 10:53 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>>> You don't think that Setup telling the user "package xyz requires
>>> package xinit" might at least tip off some users that running xyz now
>>> requires starting an X server?
>>>
>>> Even if it doesn't reduce the questions, would it at least reduce the
>>> problem of users now having to run Setup a second time to download and
>>> install the xinit package?
>> While I can't control whether Yaakov adds xinit as a dependency to
>> tcl-tk, I personally wouldn't mind adding xinit as a prereq to gitk and
>> git-gui, since I maintain that package.  There's still that annoyance
>> factor that just depending on xinit won't get X running, but at least it
>> will let you download all the bits in one run of setup.exe instead of
>> hitting the FAQ and finding out you have to rerun setup.exe.
> I don't think I've ever seen it, but does setup.exe support the notion
> of recommended and/or suggested packages?
>
> It seems that the main issue is that xinit is not a hard dependency of
> these tools/libraries and thus they should not have a hard dependency on
> xinit defined in the package definition.  However, it might make sense
> to make xinit a recommended dependency that setup.exe could offer to
> install by default or at least notify the user that they may want to
> install.
>
I suspect not, but I would like to see such recommended and/or suggested 
packages.
Back when I was using Cygwin gcc so I could learn C, m4 was not 
installed along
with it, and I believe that m4 should at least be shown as a recommended 
package
to go along with gcc.


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