On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:27 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
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| Until such time as that becomes possible for everyone to do, the
| x11-libs metabuild will PROVIDE virtual/x11. But realize that not
| everybody will have or want all the X libraries installed, when they
| only need a few.
| 
| If your package depends on virtual/x11 for any reason besides
| libraries, it will require a dependency update to work with the new
| packages.

I'd suggest keeping virtual/x11 as a 'full, complete, everything X', and
adding in a few new virtuals to take care of the common dependency
configurations. Remember, versioned virtual deps should be eschewed...

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Ciaran McCreesh
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