Jürg Billeter wrote these words on 10/17/05 10:50 CST:

> Maybe you like examples ;) Modular Xorg 7.0 will be released soon. So
> all X dependencies will have to be fixed to specify the exact
> dependency. For example cairo will depend on x11 and xrender instead of
> just X. But when doing this you will have to keep in mind that cairo
> depends on libpng, too. This dependency has been hidden before, as
> Xorg/Xfree86 depend on libpng anyway; now you have to add it to the
> dependency list of cairo. And because pango won't depend on whole X
> anymore, too, you will have to keep in mind that gtk+-2.0 depends on
> libpng, too; this fact has been hidden before because gtk+-2.0 depends
> on pango and pango depends on X (or cairo which depends on X, too) and X
> depends on libpng anyway...

This is exactly the reason (not so much for dependencies, but for
overall ease of installation) that I suggested yesterday that we
leave XFree86 in the book until after Xorg 7.0 has been in the
book and the build instructions are known to be stable. It could
very well be that many will switch back to XFree just to avoid
the modular installation, and end up with the same result.

-- 
Randy

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