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On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Metabuilds should be forthcoming shortly. I'd appreciate input on |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/metabuilds.txt and in |
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> particular from people on the GNOME and KDE teams. |
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KDE doesn't have any special requirements. It doesn't use any kind of X11 |
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build tool (what is there other than imake?). It does use some X apps like |
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xmessage, xset etc. After you commit your metaebuilds we'll update the deps |
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as needed. The only metaebuild we'll need to depend on is -libs. |
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However, consider this usecase: user (who's used to the old docs) installs new |
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stage3, types 'emerge kde', runs kdm... oops, no X server... |
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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' would |
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result in an unusable system without any fonts at all... |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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