Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X plans

[Caleb Tennis <caleb@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 08 August 2005 08:14 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> If you could bring up some specific examples, we could discuss them.

Sure.  Qt has optional support for xkb, tablet, fontconfig, xrender, xrandr, 
xcursor, xinerama (already a use flag), xshape, and xsm.

I'd really hate to add 8 more use flags for those things.  I find it fairly 
hard to believe that a user would want to, for example, configre xrender and 
xcursor but not xrandr.

My *thought* here is why not let the Qt ebuild rely on the base packages of X, 
and if these other packages are also installed ahead of time, then configure 
support for them as well, but don't make them use flag deps.

Something like:

if xcursor is installed
  turn on xcursor support
  DEPEND+=xcursor
fi

I'm sure someone will cast me as a heretic, but I think this is much more 
elegant than 8 more use flags.
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