From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:42:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added make options NO_GUI and WITH_P4IMPORT.
Message-ID: <20070321144210.GF14837@codelabs.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4601437D.1010700@gnu.org>

Paolo, good day.

Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> 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.

Yep, you're right. That was I meant originally. How do you feel
about NO_GUI or NO_TCL names?
-- 
Eygene