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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