FS#42403 - [winff] Dependency on xterm - any terminal emulator will do

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Luis Henrique Mello (lmello) - Thursday, 16 October 2014, 11:25 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 13:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
xterm is listed as an dependency and it will be installed along the package. But actually any terminal emulator will do the job perfectly - when I tried WinFF I tought it would open xterm but it opened gnome terminal and the conversion was done.

Additional info:
winff 1.5.3-1
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 13:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  xterm is now an optdep instead
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Friday, 17 October 2014, 09:52 GMT
Hi, thanks for reporting!

Currently, the terminal packages are not in a package group, so one just have to choose one terminal to depend on.
Would gnome-terminal be a better choice?

Alternatively, I can check if a package group for terminal applications would be a viable option.
Comment by Luis Henrique Mello (lmello) - Sunday, 19 October 2014, 19:35 GMT
hum I don't know.

Is it possible to add terminal emulators (konsole, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, etc) as 'or' dependencies? Does anyone know what happens if winff is launched without a terminal emulator installed (which I think it's VERY difficult to happen if one uses a DE or Window Manager)?
Comment by Luis Henrique Mello (lmello) - Monday, 20 October 2014, 10:24 GMT
hum I don't know.

Is it possible to add terminal emulators (konsole, gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, etc) as 'or' dependencies? Does anyone know what happens if winff is launched without a terminal emulator installed (which I think it's VERY difficult to happen if one uses a DE or Window Manager)?
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Monday, 20 October 2014, 14:00 GMT
Without a package group for terminals, there is no way of depending on terminals in general. And skipping a dependency because it is likely that it is installed is not considered good practice. There is another package (can't remember which) that depends on a specific font package, even though it just requires any font to be installed, so there is precedence for this way of doing it.

A group for terminal emulators might be a good idea, though. (Or a bug report to winff, asking them to stop depending on external terminal emulators).
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 12:20 GMT
Will change the dependency on xterm to an optional dependency.

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