Re: [PATCH] Added make options NO_GUI and WITH_P4IMPORT.

From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Eygene Ryabinkin" <rea-git@codelabs.ru>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added make options NO_GUI and WITH_P4IMPORT.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:58:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703210758v32e7a692p426f45de9ee6db42@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321144210.GF14837@codelabs.ru>

On 3/21/07, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> wrote:
> Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > >> I am happening to develop on some machines on which I have no
> > >> X-Windows or any GUI providers at all, so I prefer not to have the
> > >> Tcl/Tk dependency at all.
> > >
> > > If you don't do something, it is often interesting to state why: if you
> > > don't install something to prevent a dependency you don't want to have, it
> > > is different from saying that you do not want to have a GUI, _even if_ the
> > > dependency is there already.
> >
> > I read his message as "these are useless for me, so why introduce a
> > useless dependency?"  The "effect" is to have no Tcl dependence,
> > but the original reason is to have no GUI.
>
> Yep, you're right. That was I meant originally. How do you feel
> about NO_GUI or NO_TCL names?

That'd be NO_TCL_TK. TCL has nothing to do with graphics.
And you have one more supporter for NO_GUI (my server has no
usable graphics, will never have and runs cron jobs with git in them).