Re: [gentoo-dev] feature request for X ebuild

[Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>]

On Friday 13 July 2001 23:14, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:12:17PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > This is a good idea; any takers who want to work on a new version of
> > > the xfree ebuild?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> >
> > BTW: we might finally incorporate the nvidia drivers as well.
>
> Well, I don't want to add the nvidia drivers to the xfree ebuild, since
> they don't require the xfree sources to build.  We should only add things
> to the main xfree build if they really need the xfree sources to compile;
> otherwise, it's more efficient to add them as a separate package.

Of course. But then, do these ati/savage drivers really need the X sources? 
(i.e. not just the installable headers). In any case, if we have USE flags 
for ATI/savage as suggested in the orig. post, we might as well have one for 
nvidia.

BTW: what's the policy for creating new USE keywords? There's an awful lot 
already, and it seems we might create one for every second package. There are 
always package interdependencies. LyX can make use of some 20 packages, but 
that's no reason for having a USE keyword for each of them! Maybe we should 
have a setting "USE_ALL" that would always build all possible dependencies of 
which a package can make use. This could be useful for testing etc.

Dan Armak