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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Metabuild dependency types
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:01:05
Message-Id: 44440F90.2020503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Modular X: VIDEO_CARDS=ati moved to mach64, r128, radeon by "Sven Köhler"
1 Sven Köhler wrote:
2 > Would it harm anything, if the drivers become a dependency of the second
3 > kind?
4
5 It would mean that you could have the xorg-x11 metabuild installed and
6 yet still not have a complete installation, if the emerge failed after
7 it was installed.
8
9 The question of what type of dependency metabuilds should use is far
10 broader than just xorg-x11. It would also affect kde and gnome, among
11 others.
12
13 Thanks,
14 Donnie
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Metabuild dependency types "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@×××.de>