| 1 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
| 2 |
Hash: SHA1 |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
Dan Armak wrote: |
| 5 |
| KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't use any kind of X11 |
| 6 |
| build tool (what is there other than imake?). It does use some X apps |
| 7 |
like |
| 8 |
| xmessage, xset etc. After you commit your metaebuilds we'll update the |
| 9 |
deps |
| 10 |
| as needed. The only metaebuild we'll need to depend on is -libs. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
I'd prefer that people don't come to depend on metabuilds at all. See |
| 13 |
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/porting_to_modular_x_howto.txt. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
| However, consider this usecase: user (who's used to the old docs) |
| 16 |
installs new |
| 17 |
| stage3, types 'emerge kde', runs kdm... oops, no X server... |
| 18 |
| |
| 19 |
| To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the |
| 20 |
other |
| 21 |
| WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is |
| 22 |
| unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge |
| 23 |
| xorg-x11'? Personally I'm in favor of updating the docs, making a big |
| 24 |
| announcement on all channels, and preparing a nice bug to close |
| 25 |
duplicates |
| 26 |
| against. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Couple of ideas here. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
1) We do as you suggest, and make people emerge xorg-x11 |
| 31 |
2) KDE could add a USE=X and dep X? ( xorg-server ) |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
| We'll also need to educate them about xorg-x11 not installing fonts any |
| 34 |
| longer. The way I understood your metabuilds.txt, 'emerge xorg-x11 |
| 35 |
kde' would |
| 36 |
| result in an unusable system without any fonts at all... |
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
We will still install some fonts, but not all, and I'll note that in the |
| 39 |
metabuilds text. |
| 40 |
|
| 41 |
Thanks for the comments, |
| 42 |
Donnie |
| 43 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 44 |
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) |
| 45 |
|
| 46 |
iD8DBQFDV+PhXVaO67S1rtsRAryFAJ4rQJ1FNcnDDiw0gYDAhUwGPFx9vACeOGor |
| 47 |
uc7ieRH+D73hVLXt8hxAJF4= |
| 48 |
=MNDF |
| 49 |
-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 50 |
-- |
| 51 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives