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* Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote: |
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> *What* are you talking about? PDEPENDs are packages that should be emerged |
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> *after* the package in question. That A depends on B to be emerged *after* A |
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> and B depends on A to be emerged *before* B does not produce a circular |
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> dependency! |
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In some situations they're in fact circular, ie. when using binary |
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packages. |
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BTW: I don't see any reason why the whole Xserve should be recompiled |
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if just some other device driver is needed. |
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> The PDEPEND of xorg-server is a convenience for the user to only need to set |
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> VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES (or stick with the defaults) and have |
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> xorg-server pull in only the requested drivers after itself. |
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Why not simply an virtual for that ? |
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I did it in my overlay, and it works very fine. |
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> > If you want some package which pulls in an complete Xserver installation |
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> > *and* drivers (based on certain useflags), why not just an virtual |
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> > package ? |
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> virtuals are similar to meta packages (if you look at their contents) |
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> with one very important difference. |
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> virtuals provide a minimal functionality that other packages can |
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> depend on without caring about what provides it. meta packages |
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> are a convenience to the users that pulls in a bunch of packages |
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> and hence nothing is allowed to depend on them. |
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meta or virtual - where's the technical difference ? |
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I don't care about how you call them, but pulling in the drivers |
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should not belong to the server package, but an separate one. |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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