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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:51:19 -0400
Mike Wojcikiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 14 July 2003 11:41, Cristiano Paris wrote:
> > The xconfig of kernel 2.4.x series depends on wish, the TCL/TK
> > visual interpreter. Sinci TCL/TK is not installed by default, I
> > think is should be included in the dependency list of any kernel.
> 
> No, this is a bad idea... xconfig assumes you want to run X in
> addition to tcl/tk.. I cant tell you how many people use gentoo with
> no X environment (myself included on several production machines) but
> there are a lot, and to make the kernel depend on having that
> installed is excessive.  If you need xconfig you probably know enough
> to emerge tcl/tk anyways.. I live in menuconfig quite happily, as I'm
> sure most people do:)
> 
> just my $0.02CDN


oh, emerve -vp vanilla-sources  shows the tcltk USE flag. now I dearly
wonder what that might do , and why USE="tcltk" emerge -p
vanilla-sources will enable X?   *ho humm*  

//Spider
 -- irate developer


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