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Bug 434388 - x11-wm/i3 should depend on x11-misc/dmenu
Summary: x11-wm/i3 should depend on x11-misc/dmenu
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED)
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: 434898 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-09-09 05:00 UTC by Erik Price
Modified: 2013-12-28 18:30 UTC (History)
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Description Erik Price 2012-09-09 05:00:47 UTC 
In the provided default configuration, i3 assumes the presence of dmenu for its application launcher without a fallback or error message about its absence.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-09 11:52:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> In the provided default configuration, i3 assumes the presence of dmenu for
> its application launcher without a fallback or error message about its
> absence.

It also assumes the presence of x11 terminal, yet there's none in dependencies. Dependency on dmenu is even less strict. You can use i3 w/out dmenu without any problem. I'd like to keep dependencies as minimal as they can be.
Comment 2 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-13 20:05:43 UTC 
*** Bug 434898 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-13 20:13:30 UTC 
+  13 Sep 2012; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> i3-4.2.ebuild:
+  Add postinst info about suggested optional dependencies wrt to #434388 and
+  #434898 by Erik Price <gentoo@erikprice.net> and avx <idevelop@ph030.de>
+  respectively