Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-28 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/28/2014 05:57 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for >> 'ati' rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can >> im

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for 'ati' > rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can implicitly load > is a bug that should be fixed. (The "point" of doing so - questioned in > the last comme

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 04:17 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: >> >>> I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 >>> to run X on my machine but x

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > >> I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to >> run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with >> them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. > > What do you mean by

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to > run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with > them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. What do you mean by "comes

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:31:38 -0700 Mike McClain wrote: > I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or > xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but > xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and > xserver-xorg-video-ati. AFAI see, …ati is a dependency pkg that require _all_ ati

overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Mike McClain
I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. A little experimentation established that X works fine without xserver-xorg-video-{mach64,r128} but apt-get complains about