Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] lcd4linux4debian

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Xavier,

> Now, let's talk about what to do for debian, he're the claim :
> A lot of lcd4linux plugins (and soon drivers) do (or will) rely on
> external libraries, system calls, ... how to handle it ?

Good question! An another point that votes for dynamic loading!

> - make one big lcd4linx package which depends on libx11, libncurses, ...
> and don't please to embedded systems.
Not so good.

> - make separate package for each plugin and driver, but I talked to
> debian devs and they won't accept 50 different packages for one program.

Hmm... who writes the 44 plugins left? :-)

> - put libx11, libncurses and others in "suggested" or "recommended", but
> this isn't clean.

No, it isn't. Definitely not.


You should ask debian guys again, how they prefer things handled in such 
a case.

Luk, are you listening? Your opinion?

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