[Remind-Fans] Prerequisites (was Re: Remind 04.02.00 BETA 1 is Available)

[Merell L. Matlock, Jr.]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 12:22:12PM -0400, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:18:30 -0400
> "Merell L. Matlock, Jr. via Remind-fans" <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> > The official [1] package only has tk for an optional dependency (if
> > you want to run TkRemind).
> 
> The Arch dependencies look broken.  TkRemind requires tk, but it also
> requires tcllib: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tcllib
> 
For Arch, tcllib is not a hard dependency for tk; and as you note,
tcllib is an AUR package; and while I can't find it in writing, Arch
rules are that official packages cannot depend on anything from the AUR.

I guess the good thing is that if someone newly installs remind (and the
optdepend tk), then tries to run TkRemind, they'll get a nice error
message informing them that tcllib is missing.  :)

Merell
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