* Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
> *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! In some situations they're in fact circular, ie. when using binary packages. BTW: I don't see any reason why the whole Xserve should be recompiled if just some other device driver is needed. > 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. Why not simply an virtual for that ? I did it in my overlay, and it works very fine. <snip> > > 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. meta or virtual - where's the technical difference ? I don't care about how you call them, but pulling in the drivers should not belong to the server package, but an separate one. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
