Patrick,

I don't think I see the light here.
What's the use of virtualx.eclass without X support? It basically uses
xhost and Xvfb to create another DISPLAY, so I don't think it even runs
without virtual/x11 installed.

And since you're talking about virtualx dependency... 

Last week I had a problem with virtualx eclass because it uses Xvfb
which isn't installed if xorg-x11 is built with USE="minimal". If
there's no other alternative, I think virtualx should "built_with_use
xorg-x11 minimal" and fail nicely if this happen. 

Also, there should be a warning somewhere, so developers can know that
virtualx only works on full xorg-x11.

[]s
Fernando

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:38 +0100, Patrick Kursawe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to change virtualx.eclass and let it only depend on virtual/x11 if
> X is in USE.
> The idea is that packages which need an X display (for test phase or
> whatever) only when built with X in USE can inherit from virtualx without
> automatically depending on x11.
> 
> There are several ebuilds out there which inherit from virtualx but do not
> DEPEND on x11. In an attempt not to break them, I will add virtual/x11 to
> DEPEND of these packages in a few days if nobody objects.
> 
> If you are maintaining one of these packages and are sure it does not
> depend on x11 when built without X in use it would be kind of you to drop
> me a note.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick       

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