Frank Barknecht wrote: > I guess, 98 percent of the users of Pd use both the pd-gui and the Pd > main binary. Forcing them to install two instead of one package to me > doesn't look practical. > > To satisfy the other two percent, a better solution IMO would be to > make a pd-nogui patckage, that would conflict with the normal Pd > package, so that only one can be installed. This has predecessors in > the various flavours of vi(m) and emacs that can be chosen on Debian. > > All this of course should be decided by the makers of a distribution > and the respective maintainers to not violate their policies.
How about splitting it into two packages, pd-nogui.deb and pd.deb, so pd would depend on pd-nogui.deb. It's like installing (e.g.) gvim, which depends on vim-common, that contains a console version of vim. cu Thomas -- "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." (Leto II. in: Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune) http://thomas.dergrossebruder.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
