On Wednesday 16 May 2007 17:47:37 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies > > > (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. > > > > Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to recall > > the last time I was hit with one. > > At least several. I didn't find an good solution for checking > the whole tree yet, so I yet know some. Good candidates are > where PDEPENDs occour. For example the Xserver.
*What* are you talking about? PDEPENDs are packages that should be emerged *after* the package in question. That A depends on B to be emerged *after* A and B depends on A to be emerged *before* B does not produce a circular dependency! The PDEPEND of xorg-server is a convenience for the user to only need to set VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES (or stick with the defaults) and have xorg-server pull in only the requested drivers after itself. > If you want some package which pulls in an complete Xserver installation > *and* drivers (based on certain useflags), why not just an virtual > package ? virtuals are similar to meta packages (if you look at their contents) with one very important difference. virtuals provide a minimal functionality that other packages can depend on without caring about what provides it. meta packages are a convenience to the users that pulls in a bunch of packages and hence nothing is allowed to depend on them. -- Bo Andresen
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