On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:26, Dan Armak 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...
As a fairly average joe user when it comes to all things X, I feel it would be best to keep the current X USE flag behaviour, i.e. a full working Xserver. The same goes for xorg-x11, or virtual/x11. KDE needs some X libs, so obviously must always depend on them, but having the X USE set should call in a complete working server. For packages that can work with, or without X, and should give the option to have a full server, or not, perhaps a new USE flag is needed? Xlibs? -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
