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* Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:49:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > The circular dependencies between Xserver and drivers do not come |
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> > from upstream. They're artificial. If we just want an simple-to-use |
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> > package which gets the Xserver *and* drivers based on useflags |
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> > (which IMHO is an good idea), it's quite trivial to do this by an |
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> > virtual/meta package. I've did it and it works good. You can get |
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> > it from my overlay via CVS: |
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> How is this different prom portage installing the server and required |
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> drivers according to USE flag settings? |
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The difference is that you have *really NO* circular dependency. |
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PDEPENDS are in fact depencencies (no matter how many people deny |
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this fact), but with some hint for serialization. An additional |
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complexity which is not needed with my approach. |
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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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