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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X porting howto
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:51:53
Message-Id: 4300C74F.2000902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X porting howto by Donnie Berkholz
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4 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 | Chris Gianelloni wrote:
6 | | What do I RDEPEND on if the app is statically linked, but requires a
7 | | local X server to connect to, like many binary games require?
8 |
9 | xorg-server is the package providing the servers. Alternately, there's
10 | kdrive in the tree now, and I should soon be adding an updated version
11 | of that renamed to xserver once I convince latexer or twp to add the new
12 | glitz. Or the old xorg-x11. Or xdirectfb.
13
14 Oh yeah. If this X server isn't actually required to complete the
15 installation, please don't add it to the dependencies. That breaks
16 things for people interested in running applications over the network.
17 They only require the libraries and headers locally.
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19 Thanks,
20 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X porting howto Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>