i did not say anything about pike -x module, i am talking about how the modules are packaged.
and for GTK and SDL not being installed by default, that is a completely different thing from them not being available.
why are we now bashing debians packaging?
i am NOT saying that pike should generally be packaged like on debian. i am trying to point out that it is possible to do finegrained packaging without changing the current pike repository.
pikes default packaging is one extreme, and debians packaging is the other. please try to see what we can learn from this instead of dismissing it just because you feel that GTK and SDL should be in the default.
which packages are in the default is quite academic as long we don't even have the tools to even split up default and non-default while debian has them, and solving the problem on debians side is as simple as adding GTK and SDL to the pike default dependencies while changing caudium and roxen to depend on pike-core and not on pike. (because they do not need GTK or SDL)
greetings, martin.