On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in > particular from people on the GNOME and KDE teams.
KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't use any kind of X11 build tool (what is there other than imake?). It does use some X apps like xmessage, xset etc. After you commit your metaebuilds we'll update the deps as needed. The only metaebuild we'll need to depend on is -libs. However, consider this usecase: user (who's used to the old docs) installs new stage3, types 'emerge kde', runs kdm... oops, no X server... 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... -- 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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