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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:08:18
Message-Id: 20050801220425.13d75e15@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:27 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
2 <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3 | Until such time as that becomes possible for everyone to do, the
4 | x11-libs metabuild will PROVIDE virtual/x11. But realize that not
5 | everybody will have or want all the X libraries installed, when they
6 | only need a few.
7 |
8 | If your package depends on virtual/x11 for any reason besides
9 | libraries, it will require a dependency update to work with the new
10 | packages.
11
12 I'd suggest keeping virtual/x11 as a 'full, complete, everything X', and
13 adding in a few new virtuals to take care of the common dependency
14 configurations. Remember, versioned virtual deps should be eschewed...
15
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17 Ciaran McCreesh
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>