-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:27 -0700 Donnie Berkholz | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | 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. | | 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...
The virtual will retain its meaning, as I have always publicized it to be the libraries and not the X server or anything else. That's why kdrive doesn't provide it, among other things. Having x11-libs provide the virtual should also work the best for headless X servers, which have been in fairly high demand. Your suggestion of adding a few new virtuals is a good idea, but I think the metabuilds for libraries, drivers, etc. can substitute for it. It's not clear to me that there are many common configurations that could be dealt with cleanly by a virtual in a better way, that also retains a low level of complexity in the ebuilds. Frankly, the only reason the virtual will even exist after the 7.0 release is so people have time to play catch-up. I don't want the virtual to stay in use. If you could provide some examples of how the virtuals would be more helpful to other devs, I'd enjoy hearing (or reading) them. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7pK5XVaO67S1rtsRAq+gAJ9uwg60S2OTt982efkLyPXcI6ZXlgCaAmyA buyybKLsk3fRCKOZ7nfsP8w= =qEkI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
