Le 01/03/2013 14:22, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
Am 01.03.2013 03:27, schrieb Colomban Wendling:
Le 01/03/2013 02:43, Chow Loong Jin a écrit :
On 01/03/2013 04:41, Matthew Brush wrote:
Otherwise it's probably like Colomban mentioned that you don't have the required libvte package, although I would've assumed installing Geany from the repositories would've dragged that it automatically.
hyperair@thinkpwn:~% apt-cache depends geany | grep vte Suggests: libvte9
That's suggests, not recommends, so it's not dragged in by default.
Hum, it probably should become a recommend IMHO, it's an important feature and it used to be available to most people (because libvte9 used to be installed by other apps like gnome-terminal, which now depends on libvte-2.90-9).
I disagree. Geany is able to run without therefor it's only a suggestion to make usage of some cool feature.
IIUC, recommends are for things that are optional, but that provide support for important features/whatever. E.g., for something most users would want, but that's still optional. And I think VTE support is such a thing :)
But that's packaging stuff I don't care much, unless it starts giving us reports like OP's one about "where my VTE has gone" (and it probably will…).
Cheers, Colomban