-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | 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.
But see, that's the thing; no packages should just generally say "Give me the X libraries" other than temporarily. They should be specifically demanding upon the exact libraries they require. | Is it your assumption that in the future xorg-x11 will be the only | serious X server? My assumption is that if there's another fork, it will be easier to deal with || ( xorg-libfoo forkx-libfoo ) than a virtual for every single package X provides. | *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. Indeed. But what I've begun to discover is that virtuals aren't always the best solution when there is more than one provider, much less when that's a largely hypothetical question. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC7pn8XVaO67S1rtsRApYwAJ4wTzdCv2E8Lf9Yu5rjEVC+tZIGdACg6cOT yNxBHXc4DpBh3e8r76pBFrc= =vWPO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
