[Gambas-user] Minimum components for WebForms developing

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 28/11/2021 à 18:34, Jesus Guardon a écrit :
> Hi, Benoît
> 
> Glad of hearing from you. Hope you are well and eventually healed.
> 
> 
> El 28/11/21 a las 17:35, Benoît Minisini escribió:
> 
>>> But the gambas-runtime wants to install x-server
>>
>> No, gambas-runtime should no depend on an X11-server, but I see that 
>> the 'gambas-runtime' package depends on the 'xdg-utils' package. >
>> According to synaptic, 'xdg-utils' does not depend on anything, but 
>> -recommends- some x11 packages.
>>
>> Could it be the reason why installing 'gambas-runtime' installs 
>> 'x11-server'? Or maybe you are not on Ubuntu, you didn't tell...
>>
> 
> Yes, it's Ubuntu 20.4 and Gambas stable from PPA.
> 
> Attached is a *simulation* of installing gambas3-runtime.
> 
> It does install x11-common x11-utils x11-xserver-utils amongst a lot of 
> other stuff. If I understand correctly, x11-common description is:
> 
> Description: X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
> 
> So it seems I'm correct. This is not the "recommended" packages, but 
> "additional" packages that will be forcibly installed.
> 

I have no idea why it installs these packages that are just 
"recommandations", but not "dependencies"... I will think about removing 
'xdg-utils' from the 'gambas-runtime' dependencies, but It will mean 
creating a new package just for that stuff. Pfff....

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Benoît Minisini