On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The first is more correct, I think, but it's also much more annoying. > Mesa winds up having x11-proto/inputproto in DEPEND for some long > forgotten reason, for instance. > > Why is it annoying?
Because the proto will have to be added as a dependency to a lot of packages, when I think it's needed if and only if the package (r)depends on the X11 library. Because of this, it can be quite prone to missing dependencies. Matt
