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On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:26, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other |
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> WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is |
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> unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge |
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> xorg-x11'? Personally I'm in favor of updating the docs, making a big |
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> announcement on all channels, and preparing a nice bug to close duplicates |
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> against. |
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> We'll also need to educate them about xorg-x11 not installing fonts any |
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> longer. The way I understood your metabuilds.txt, 'emerge xorg-x11 kde' |
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> would result in an unusable system without any fonts at all... |
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As a fairly average joe user when it comes to all things X, I feel it would be |
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best to keep the current X USE flag behaviour, i.e. a full working Xserver. |
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The same goes for xorg-x11, or virtual/x11. |
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KDE needs some X libs, so obviously must always depend on them, but having the |
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X USE set should call in a complete working server. |
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For packages that can work with, or without X, and should give the option to |
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have a full server, or not, perhaps a new USE flag is needed? Xlibs? |
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Mike Williams |
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