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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:35:19
Message-Id: 4357B780.3090101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 by Dan Armak
1 Dan Armak wrote:
2 > On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:11, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > To keep the current behaviour, the kde metaebuild (and gnome and the other
4 > WMs) would have to depend on xorg-x11, which strictly speaking is
5 > unnecessary. Opinions? How can we educate the users to manually 'emerge
6 > xorg-x11'? Personally I'm in favor of updating the docs, making a big
7 > announcement on all channels, and preparing a nice bug to close duplicates
8 > against.
9 >
10 > We'll also need to educate them about xorg-x11 not installing fonts any
11 > longer. The way I understood your metabuilds.txt, 'emerge xorg-x11 kde' would
12 > result in an unusable system without any fonts at all...
13 >
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15 a useflag could solve the issue as well a all inclusive metaebuild for X.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>