Re: Fwd: packaging post script glitch.

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 at 15:22, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 16/12/2025 à 15:02, Lee a écrit :
> 
> > > I originally thought that but then I thought maybe it's trying to be
> > > like the vb-runtime package that is more like the "users" version
> > > needed to run programs not the development version with ide but a
> > > general run things package.
> > 
> > That somewhat makes sense.
> > 
> > However, gambas3-scripter depends on gambas3-runtime which includes the
> > gb.gui* packages. Is it possible to use those gb.gui* packages in a non-
> > gui environment? I don't know because I've never tried.
> > 
> > Also, it seems the gb.gui* packages would depend on at least one of the
> > GUI packages in gambas3-gui. But, I can't tell because they are not
> > mentioned in the Package list chart (showing dependencies) at the bottom
> > of the page linked above.
> 
> 
> The 'gb.gui.*' packages are just packages that load the real GUI
> packages according to the current desktop, and abort if they cannot
> succeed in finding any GUI package suitable.
> 
> So there is no problem in installing them on a non GUI system. They have
> no required dependencies on any library (except 'libc').
> 
> Regards,
> 

The proper explanation of the creator himself, with some more ins and outs.

Thanks,

gbWilly

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