-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:25:32PM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
>> In your proposed solution, the code would always select xterm and then rxvt >> if >> both were installed, which may just result in another bug report requesting >> that >> the order be reversed (or that other terminals be added to the list, again >> with >> ordering issues). It just seems arbitrary when users who have a preference of >> terminal emulator can easily configure clusterssh to suit their needs, and it >> works as packaged for people who don't have a preference, using the same >> terminal emulator configured by default by the upstream author. > > Yes, I can configure it and work around the exact functional issue, but that > still doesn't make it right for the cssh package to force me to have xterm > installed even if I don't need it. That's not an upstream issue, it's ours. I disagree. Upstream explicitly uses the command 'xterm' to invoke a terminal emulator and allows the user to override this in the configuration. Debian's x-terminal-emulator is not a suitable replacement for reasons already discussed in this bug report, therefore the dependency on is xterm. Your claim is that you shouldn't have to install the xterm package to use clusterssh because it works with other terminals, and that the functionality of clusterssh should be extended to support automatically searching through an arbitrary list of terminal emulators. This clearly changes how the upstream clusterssh works. In any event, what is the issue with having to install xterm? Do you think the dependency should be on rxvt (and the clusterssh source patched as part of packaging to invoke that instead)? This seems arbitrary and capricious, other users may find mrxvt or wterm or some other terminal more suitable and disagree with the fact that either xterm or rxvt has to be loaded on their systems. I see no reason to address this in code so long as the xterm package is available and functioning on all architectures. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktGTT0ACgkQpdwBkPlyvgM6DQCdF9+o0eKx49z1iGFkpfd5d3k2 RKEAn0xS66CF+Jjl74FLEWoGsMp4T/Yr =QW42 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
