Hello, I would strongly vote to split the hwloc package to the core (ASCII only, including ASCII only version of lstopo ) package and GUI package which will bring GUI version of lstopo.
This is also the way how this is handled in Ubuntu - please check the packages vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor vim-gnome vim-gnome depends on vim-common I also believe that having two binaries of lstopo - similar to "vim" and "gvim" will make the usage clear. I would vote to make lstopo ASCII only and introduce new GUI binary "lstopo-gui" in the version 1.5 Cheers Jirka On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Chris Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 April 2012 19:38:00 Brice Goglin wrote: > > > How do people feel about this? > > It sounds like what you have is a conflict between the policies of > Debian (and hence Ubuntu) and the expectations of RHEL/CentOS users. > > Debian Policy is fairly clear on this matter: > > # 11.8.1 Providing X support and package priorities > # > # Programs that can be configured with support for the X Window System > # must be configured to do so and must declare any package > # dependencies necessary to satisfy their runtime requirements when > # using the X Window System. [...] > > It says you can split it into a separate package to provide GUI > functionality *only* if the "package is of higher priority than the X > packages on which it depends" (which I suspect is not the usual case). > > cheers, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/ > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel >
