> 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. ...
> menuconfig quite happily, as I'm sure most people do:)
Yes, I always use menuconfig to configure my kernels. But I was writing
an howto on how to build a honeypot with UML for people with little
knowledge about kernel configuration/compilation.
For such people xconfig would be a better alternative to menuconfig. So
I tried to replicate each step in the howto and make xconfig ... uh! wish
not found.
I think that if you already have X installed then kernel sources
should depend on TCL/TK... I don't know if this is possible... here we
are talking about conditional dependencies.
think about a newbie in its X favorite environment trying to configure
the kernel... it tries menu xconfig (as stated in many kernel howtos)
and the not-so-user-friendly kernel build scripts complain about not
finding wish.
The user gets confused (which ebuild wish is in? The doesn't suggest
much) and eventually gives up rebuilding the kernel... that's no good
advertisement for Gentoo :-)
As you said, just my two cents...
Cristiano
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