Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:48 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak (danarmak@g.o) wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote:
> > > On 10/20/05, Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> wrote:
> > > > To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e.
> > > > 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags.
> > >
> > > What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag?
> > It wouldn't solve the problem at hand.
> >
> > Without any flag at all, the user needs to 'emerge xorg-x11' manually to
> > get eg KDE to run locally. With an off-by-default flag, he needs to set
> > it on manually, _before_ installing KDE, to get an xorg-x11 server. As
> > long as he needs to do something manually, explicitly, it should just be
> > an 'emerge xorg-x11', which after all is a very simple operation.
>
> Maybe I'm being stupid, but I don't understand why a user would need to
> emerge xorg-x11 manually when doing 'emerge kde'.  Surely somewhere in kde's
> dependency graph the X server is called up in RDEPEND?  An X server
> is clearly a run-time dependency.
>
> Like, konqueror RDEPENDS on qt which RDEPENDS on xorg-xserver, or whatever.

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