On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:23:06 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Your suggestion of adding a few new virtuals is a good idea, but I | think the metabuilds for libraries, drivers, etc. can substitute for | it. It's not clear to me that there are many common configurations | that could be dealt with cleanly by a virtual in a better way, that | also retains a low level of complexity in the ebuilds.
Well... What I was mainly thinking (and assuming we don't have the new virtuals system by whenever this becomes relevant) is that a metapackage could represent, say, "the core x11 libraries as provided by xorg". This is all well and good, but there are other X implementations out there. It could well save a lot of work in the long term if deps were generally upon "the core x11 libraries" instead. | Frankly, the only reason the virtual will even exist after the 7.0 | release is so people have time to play catch-up. I don't want the | virtual to stay in use. Is it your assumption that in the future xorg-x11 will be the only serious X server? *shrug* I realise we make similar assumptions about a lot of packages, but X is a) an at least vaguely standard protocol, b) heavily depended upon and c) implemented by more than one vendor. -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
