On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:07 -0200, Fernando Serboncini wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Packages should still be able to compile if xorg-x11 was built with minimal. Look at the recent changes to pyopengl to see how it was done there. I don't really see this one as being quite so easy to resolve. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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