Randy McMurchy wrote: > TheOldFellow wrote these words on 06/06/05 16:31 CST: > > >>All I can say is that the package builds fine without any of these >>packages. > > > Of course it does. However, it will install additional components > if you have the packages I listed. > > Understand, all I quoted would be optional dependencies. In a nutshell, > here's my observations.
Seems to me that they are 'Optional Dependencies' then. We had a terminalogy issue - you were using 'dependency' to mean something other than: 'it depends on', more: 'it will use if available'. If that's what 'Optional Dependency' means, fine. In your first mailing on this you used 'Dependency', to which I assign the first definition. As an OpenBox user, I find all this deep linkage with gnome and kde rather irrelevant - I also think it's bad for applications, especially as the gnome and kde people keep changing the APIs, but then that's religion for you. The only reason I ever build the desktops is to help wean a Windows user off their evil habit... :-) R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
