From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EShgq-00048J-2F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:11:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9KL8NIf031052; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:08:23 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9KL6BRT007450 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:06:11 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j9KL8orn028971 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:08:50 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:08:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <52ZKB4.136721026EZE64L@gentoo.org> References: <200510202116.47326.danarmak@gentoo.org> <52ZKB4.136721026EZE64L@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sYNhe9+XaDChvFyYyobg" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:08:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1129842521.11559.71.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5a8fd9d0-e360-4500-9b0f-51099a69a66d X-Archives-Hash: b580c871b061b71cc56be8ff41dca896 --=-sYNhe9+XaDChvFyYyobg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:48 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak (danarmak@gentoo.org) wrote: > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: > > > On 10/20/05, Dan Armak wrote: > > > > To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. > > > > 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags. > > > > > > What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag? > > It wouldn't solve the problem at hand.=20 > >=20 > > Without any flag at all, the user needs to 'emerge xorg-x11' manually t= o=20 > > get eg KDE to run locally. With an off-by-default flag, he needs to set= =20 > > it on manually, _before_ installing KDE, to get an xorg-x11 server. As=20 > > long as he needs to do something manually, explicitly, it should just b= e=20 > > an 'emerge xorg-x11', which after all is a very simple operation. >=20 > Maybe I'm being stupid, but I don't understand why a user would need to > emerge xorg-x11 manually when doing 'emerge kde'. Surely somewhere in kd= e's > dependency graph the X server is called up in RDEPEND? An X server > is clearly a run-time dependency. >=20 > Like, konqueror RDEPENDS on qt which RDEPENDS on xorg-xserver, or whateve= r. DISPLAY=3D"remote:0" startkde --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-sYNhe9+XaDChvFyYyobg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDWAdZkT4lNIS36YERAjVFAJ91mcIkcVA30xzrngLi8A8aMH2VqwCeLrf+ d6fNZ7Zxeb380Mb7spZ9txk= =fQES -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sYNhe9+XaDChvFyYyobg-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list