Frank Barknecht wrote:
I guess, 98 percent of the users of Pd use both the pd-gui and the Pd main binary. Forcing them to install two instead of one package to me doesn't look practical.
To satisfy the other two percent, a better solution IMO would be to make a pd-nogui patckage, that would conflict with the normal Pd package, so that only one can be installed. This has predecessors in the various flavours of vi(m) and emacs that can be chosen on Debian.
All this of course should be decided by the makers of a distribution and the respective maintainers to not violate their policies.
How about splitting it into two packages, pd-nogui.deb and pd.deb, so pd would depend on pd-nogui.deb. It's like installing (e.g.) gvim, which depends on vim-common, that contains a console version of vim.
cu Thomas
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