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