On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:48 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > 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.
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