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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:27 -0700 Donnie Berkholz |
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| <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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| | Until such time as that becomes possible for everyone to do, the |
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| | x11-libs metabuild will PROVIDE virtual/x11. But realize that not |
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| | everybody will have or want all the X libraries installed, when they |
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| | only need a few. |
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| I'd suggest keeping virtual/x11 as a 'full, complete, everything X', and |
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| adding in a few new virtuals to take care of the common dependency |
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| configurations. Remember, versioned virtual deps should be eschewed... |
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The virtual will retain its meaning, as I have always publicized it to |
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be the libraries and not the X server or anything else. That's why |
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kdrive doesn't provide it, among other things. Having x11-libs provide |
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the virtual should also work the best for headless X servers, which have |
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been in fairly high demand. |
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Your suggestion of adding a few new virtuals is a good idea, but I think |
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the metabuilds for libraries, drivers, etc. can substitute for it. It's |
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not clear to me that there are many common configurations that could be |
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dealt with cleanly by a virtual in a better way, that also retains a low |
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level of complexity in the ebuilds. |
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Frankly, the only reason the virtual will even exist after the 7.0 |
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release is so people have time to play catch-up. I don't want the |
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virtual to stay in use. |
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If you could provide some examples of how the virtuals would be more |
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helpful to other devs, I'd enjoy hearing (or reading) them. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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