On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:28, Luca Barbato wrote: > Dan Armak wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the > > other WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is > > unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge > > xorg-x11'? Personally I'm in favor of updating the docs, making a big > > announcement on all channels, and preparing a nice bug to close > > duplicates against. > > > > We'll also need to educate them about xorg-x11 not installing fonts any > > longer. The way I understood your metabuilds.txt, 'emerge xorg-x11 kde' > > would result in an unusable system without any fonts at all... > > a useflag could solve the issue as well a all inclusive metaebuild for X. To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags.
Also, we'd have to include RDEPEND="!noxserver? ( x11-base/xorg-x11 )" in every ebuild in the tree being updated to depend on x11-base/xorg-libs. Or an eclass to the same effect. This would be easily forgotten in new ebuilds, and then we'd get inconsistent behavior. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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