Bug 434388

Summary:	x11-wm/i3 should depend on x11-misc/dmenu
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Price <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) <xarthisius>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	idevelop
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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