Re: [Fink-beginners] Why does Gnuplot depend on X11?

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Thank you, Ben.

From: Benjamin Reed <ra...@be...>
> So it builds without X11, but that doesn't mean there aren't features 
> that are enabled when X11 is available that aren't there otherwise.  My 
> guess is the package was updated to provide those features.  

Since I now know the approach that I thought of to check if it 
depends on X11 is right, I'll repeat the experiment (1) to make 
sure that I didn't mix up something last time. If the result
is the same, 

> General 
> practice in this case is to make a -nox package that disables the X11 
> bits.  I don't know what the packager's intentions are in that respect, 
> but you're welcome to make a package request on the fink page.

I'll do that.

# But, it has just occured to me... when most people begin using 
# 10.3, there will be few demands for the -nox package, because
# I hear that 10.3 includes X11 and gnuplot looks better in the
# X11 environment. 

gxs