On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:37:26PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Roman Häfeli wrote: > >On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:56 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >>i think it would be interesting to split pd and pd-gui into 2 separate > >>packages (pd recommending pd-gui, pd-gui probably depending on pd (but > >>not necessarily)). > >>right now, you can run pd with "-nogui", but due to all the dependencies > >>in the package, you will have to install X, tk and so on. (correct me if > >>i am wrong, i haven't checked) > >i think, this is a good idea. puredata depends on tk8.4 depends on > >libx11-6 depends on x11-common etc. so yes, in order to install pd now, > >the whole x window system is installed. > > I don't see what's the problem. You don't have to install the whole X > Window System, because it's already installed anyway. > > Unless you ran out of diskettes.
Or you are running on a headless embedded system[1], or a flash-ROM based system with no X[2]. Chris. [1] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7851725125.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp2x ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
