Re: [Gnewsense-dev] No xv?

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:02:33 -0500
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> My trying to install xv was a mistake.  The program I wanted was gv.
> 
> Nonetheless, It seems like a bug to get the message I got.
> 
>     The package that refers to it is x11-common, one of the X.org
> binaries. The reference is in Conflicts, meaning that xv is removed
> when X.org is installed.
> 
> Should x11-common be fixed not to refer to xv?
> Maybe there should be a "discard package" list
> and all mentions of those packages should be removed
> when copying other packages from Debian.

That means recompiling dozens (hundreds?) of packages for no gain other
then to remove 10 characters from a meta file.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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