On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:27, Steve G wrote: > >Separating at the source level make no sense to me since they > >can be turned off in the RPM with a simple configure switch. What > >surgery would you have to do? > > I'll wait and see what the new source rpms looks like before I decide what surgey > is necessary. Normally, I have to disable doxygen since that swings in all kinds > of X windows stuff and then go through the configure.in and delete any test that > ends in a compile failure for X or related libs, regenrate a new configure, fix > the Make all target not to do anything related to X, and doctor the spec file not > to package X related items including desktop-fileutils entries. > > Openssh is a model specfile for separating X from console only stuff. I only have > to set 1 variable and everything else happens like magic. I can even pass that in > fomr the commandline without doctoring the specfile. That would alleviate my > concerns about the intertwining of X/Gtk/Qt from a daemon. BTW, vim is a very > good specfile, too, wrt separating X. I will take a look at those and see what I can do. Thanks for the input. -- J5
