Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: An ignorant question?

[Chris Croughton]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:31:47PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> > I appear to have Lesstif, Tk and gtk installed (probably Athena as
> > well but it doesn't seem to be a separate Debian package).
> 
> It's many.  As it evolved over time, some applications need older
> versions, some newer ones.

My point.  And many of them don't 'need' the specific version, that's
just what they were compiled/linked with (look at the way we still have
libc5 around because some apps were linked against that).

> Debian Woody:
> 
>     xaw3d - cute 3D replacement for the X Athena widget set [libc5]

Aha, that's the one I have installed, I thought it must be used by
something.

Chris C