* Jorgen Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060523 01:14]:
> One small problem: ratpoison now Depends: on 9menu. While this is
> nice, I find it somewhat obscure that a window manager like ratpoison
> _requires_ a menu application upon installation. It would be nice if
> this would be changed to Recommends:, since it surely is not required
> for ratpoison to work.
I thought a long time about this. The reason leading me to this
direction were:
- 9menu if quite tiny. The binary of it is smaller than the
ruby bindings of ratpoison, and the binary make the largest part of
the package. The whole unpacked package, even when rounding all files
to block sizes, would fit within the changelog.Debian.gz of ratpoison.
- There is no way to specify that 9menu should be installed when menu
is installed.
If menu is installed, all halfly capable window managers offer to
start ratpoison with a simple click into the menu. I'd much prefer
to have a nice way back when someone accidentially clicks on
ratpoison, so that admins can install ratpoison for the power users
with a clear conscience.
- Least I don't know how to calculate the window manager priority when
there is a menu but not always...
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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