On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: > > On 10/20/05, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. > > > 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags. > > > > What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag? > It wouldn't solve the problem at hand. > > Without any flag at all, the user needs to 'emerge xorg-x11' manually to > get eg KDE to run locally. With an off-by-default flag, he needs to set > it on manually, _before_ installing KDE, to get an xorg-x11 server. As > long as he needs to do something manually, explicitly, it should just be > an 'emerge xorg-x11', which after all is a very simple operation.
Maybe I'm being stupid, but I don't understand why a user would need to emerge xorg-x11 manually when doing 'emerge kde'. Surely somewhere in kde's dependency graph the X server is called up in RDEPEND? An X server is clearly a run-time dependency. Like, konqueror RDEPENDS on qt which RDEPENDS on xorg-xserver, or whatever. Kev. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
