[RP] xterm/x-terminal-emulator/whatever dependency

[Gergely Nagy]

Hi there!

Yesterday on IRC I asked if the dependency on xterm or any other x terminal 
emulator
could be removed. The current situation (as of today :) is that ratpoison 
cannot be 
easily built without an xterm. This is especially painful when I want to create 
the
Debian package. To solve the problem RealFast, I added a xterm | 
x-terminal-emulator
to ratpoison's build-dependency (in debian/control). However, I don't think 
this is
nice, as RP can be built without it.

So, my proposal is the following: hack configure.in, and change it, so 
--with-xterm will
default to xterm, can be overridden from the commandline (no change till this), 
but
it must not fail, when it does not found it. It should not look for the 
specified xterm
at all! If the user doesn't have any xterm-like program, he'll configure RP 
accordingly,
most users will be happy with the default :)

Anyway, if configure won't fail when there is no xterm/whatever, I could remove 
the
build-dependency on xterm | x-terminal-emulator, and change 
Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator to a Recommends: only.

What do you think ?

Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8]