pkgsrc/devel/git/DESCR
gdt b90ffb0cba devel/git: Drop git-gitk from git metapakage
As discussed at length on pkgsrc-users: A number of people believe
that the git metapackage should contain all of what is in git's
release tarball, and that people should read DESCR.  A number of
people believe that the package named git should contain less (not
gitk), and sometimes even less than that.  As a compromise where each
group is merely grumbling a little, drop gitk from the metapackage,
because it is a component that some are bothered by (because it
depends on tk, tcl and X, mostly), and because it is easy for those
that want it to install it separately.
2019-07-17 14:33:28 +00:00

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This package is a meta package, collecting the components that are
widely expected to be installed for the GIT distributed version
control suite, i.e., the tool itself, the man pages, and contrib scripts.
See git-base for a minimal installation of the command-line tools.
See git-gitk for the tk-based browser gitk, no longer included in the
git meta-package.