Should Arch Offical support NON X Dependened App?

ioky · 2010-03-07 03:59:56

Arch Linux's CLI environment have been one of the Best Polished CLI environment out there. The color theme and how text are organize are simply sexy. For this reason, I chooses Arch for my Media server at home. Even though it would be ideal for me to run it without GUI, sometime I need to address the file directly in the server to check things out, like image, movie, and songs. Arch have everything for those stuff.

The one problem I find is that most of those software I run in CLI comes with some X.org Dependence. Such as, VLC, Mplayer, imagemagick, and even vim need some kind of X dependence, along with some seem very CLI focus app. I seem like a lot of Distro will also have a so call "nox" version of some software if they do supply pure CLI.

I know that you can find a few "nox" version of the softwares in AUR. But I think it would be great if Arch will supply some of those "nox" officially. After I think that suite the Arch Way pretty well. with X dependence makes the distro seem toward to Desktop usage.

So what do you option?

Last edited by ioky (2010-03-07 04:01:46)

Allan · 2010-03-07 04:12:27

ioky wrote:

even vim need some kind of X dependence

Really?

> pacman -Si vim
Repository     : extra
Name           : vim
...
Depends On     : gpm  coreutils  perl

None of those look X like.

Themaister · 2010-03-07 05:51:47

There is no point for Arch to support more versions of the same package. That's what ABS is for after all.

Blue Peppers · 2010-03-07 23:11:31

ioky wrote:

even vim need some kind of X dependence

Arch packages gvim seperatly

[laurie]¥ pacman -Qi vim gvim                                                                                23:10[laurie@Edgar]
Name           : vim
...
Depends On     : gpm  coreutils  perl  
...
Description    : Vi Improved, a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor

Name           : gvim
...
Depends On     : vim>=7.2.368  python  libxt  desktop-file-utils  gtk2  
...
Description    : the vim text editor with advanced features enabled, such as a gui mode

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#1 2010-03-07 03:59:56

Should Arch Offical support NON X Dependened App?

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Re: Should Arch Offical support NON X Dependened App?

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