On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:00, SanskritFritz <sanskritfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Grissiom <chaos.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think -without-xsel is good for distros. Because the pkg manager of >> that distro can "suggest" to install xsel together with fish, which is >> more cleaner way IMHO. > > > There is such thing as 'optional dependencies' in archlinux. My question is, > if I compile fish with xsel enabled, will xsel be mandatory for fish then? > Or can fish run just fine without xsel installed?
I can't speak to any changes in the git versions, but for the latest release, xsel doesn't affect compiling the main program. The makefile just extracts, builds, and installs the bundled copy unless --without-xsel is passed to configure. You can see this by looking at the generated config.h - it never refers to xsel. >From a packaging point of view, I would recommend always using --without-xsel and setting it as an optional dependency - people might want to install xsel but not fish or use the latest version (the bundled copy is out of date), in which case you can have conflicting packages. There's really no reason for it to be bundled. -- Rob Farmer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
