Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:

On 11/1/05, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I really really prefer gitk in the core, even if it means that there's
that strange tcl/tk dependency.

I agree, but that's kind of a bummer for servers where someone just
wants to publish a couple of repos. tk depends on xlibs/libx11 and
that's just _nasty_.

git-core should be good for deployment on a server. Perhaps we want to
provide a git-scm package that brings in all the goodies you're likely
to want, including gitk?

for debian make it a reccomendation not a requirement, for RPM the admins 
will just have to override the dependancy (it's not like they don't have 
to do this for a bunch of other packages that have an optional GUI piece, 
RPM just doesn't have the option to list a reccomendation)

David Lang

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