On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:23, Mike Williams wrote: > 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. That's not the meaning of the flag. Its meaning is 'enable optional X11 support'. Usually (almost always) this means client X support.
For apps that really have optional support for the xorg-x11 server, a new USE flag might be introduced. > 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? No. That would change the meaning of the X USE flag. We could add a new USE flag, but we shouldn't rename existing ones. In any case, the decision of optional clientside X support (the X USE flag today) should be completely separate from the decision of installing a local X server. -- 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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