On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:08:17PM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> This clearly changes how the upstream clusterssh works.
Technically yes, but it doesn't *conflict* with the upstream defaults, it
just adjusts them to automatically suit more users than what upstream had
intended. That's supposed to be a good thing.
> 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.
I don't have anything particular against xterm, and indeed I never suggested
to demote it, I said explicitly it should continue to be tried first.
I just want more of an equal opportunity status for rxvt, and we shouldn't
force users to have excess packages installed as a matter of principle,
even if we're talking about relatively insignificant things like xterm.
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