[gentoo-dev] Modular X update

[Donnie Berkholz]

AREAS WE NEED HELP WITH:
1) Porting applications to modular X
2) Fixing descriptions for the vast majority of modular packages.


OK, it seems like we've now got issues resolved related to the new 
virtual/x11 package. Despite all the eyes that looked at it and all the 
publicity on lists and elsewhere, we still missed the lack of stable 
keywords in it, which caused some issues when the default virtual was 
pulled from the base profile. Thanks to axxo and flameeyes for dealing 
with this while I was at lunch.

Here's roughly how it all works:

1) Users with xorg-6.x installed will continue along happily, because 
6.x PROVIDES virtual/x11 on their systems.

2) Users with no X installed will pull in the virtual/x11 package 
because there is no longer a default virtual.

3) Users with xorg-7.x installed will need all their packages updated 
for modular dependencies. There is a porting guide at 
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/porting_to_modular_x_howto.txt 
  -- go ahead and run through it for your favorite packages, and file 
bugs to their maintainers with the updated dependencies.

One note for porting to modular: binary packages will require a script 
using ldd instead of one checking the compilation log. Petteri Räty has 
kindly made one available at 
http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/scripts/checkdeps -- it depends on 
portage-utils.

While packages are being ported to modular X, you will be unable to 
upgrade any unported packages (so likely your 'world') without an entry 
in /etc/portage/profile/virtuals that emulates virtual/x11 using an 
installed package, e.g.:

virtual/x11	x11-base/xorg-x11

assuming you have the xorg-x11-7 metabuild installed.

I hope that covers pretty much everything right now.

Thanks for your patience,
Donnie
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