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From: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X: VIDEO_CARDS=ati moved to mach64, r128, radeon
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:26:21
Message-Id: e2111r$a7b$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Modular X: VIDEO_CARDS=ati moved to mach64, r128, radeon by Donnie Berkholz
1 Hi,
2
3 > The obvious symptom when you don't have any valid VIDEO_CARDS set will
4 > be that the xorg-x11 ebuild tries to pull in everything. Warnings or
5 > die()'s about this change are useless, they will be too late because all
6 > the drivers will have already been built at that point.
7
8 but doesn't portage provide two kinds of dependencies:
9 One, where the dependencies are installed prior to the package, and one,
10 where the dependencies are (or at least can be) install after the
11 package itself?
12
13 Would it harm anything, if the drivers become a dependency of the second
14 kind?
15
16 --
17 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

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