From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added make options NO_GUI and WITH_P4IMPORT. Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:38:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4601437D.1010700@gnu.org> References: <20070320114525.GP96806@codelabs.ru> <20070321051406.GW96806@codelabs.ru> <20070321115004.GB14837@codelabs.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eygene Ryabinkin , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 21 15:39:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HU1yH-0008VU-UV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:39:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752919AbXCUOjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752918AbXCUOjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:39:22 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34400 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752905AbXCUOjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:39:21 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HU1y0-0000Lh-4X for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:39:08 +0100 Received: from usilu-ge.ti-edu.ch ([195.176.176.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:39:08 +0100 Received: from bonzini by usilu-ge.ti-edu.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:39:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: usilu-ge.ti-edu.ch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> I am happening to develop on some machines on which I have no >> X-Windows or any GUI providers at all, so I prefer not to have the >> Tcl/Tk dependency at all. > > If you don't do something, it is often interesting to state why: if you > don't install something to prevent a dependency you don't want to have, it > is different from saying that you do not want to have a GUI, _even if_ the > dependency is there already. I read his message as "these are useless for me, so why introduce a useless dependency?" The "effect" is to have no Tcl dependence, but the original reason is to have no GUI. So, "If you don't do something, it is often interesting to state why". Why no TCL (in git)? Because no X11 (on the machine). Paolo