Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X porting: dependency changes

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:03, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> | As far as progress on this issue, we're looking into adopting glep 37
> | and creating a virtual/x11 ebuild to address this.
>
> I've just committed virtual/x11 to the tree. See
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112896 if you run into any
> problems with it.
>
> It won't work properly with macos yet because they use a "fake" package,
> so they'll have to hang on to virtual/x11 in the profiles.

It should work if the listed package matches what the macos profiles have in 
package.provided...

> I plan to remove the virtual/x11 definition from base/virtuals in a
> couple of days, because this should provide a full (and non-broken)
> replacement.

This can be easily tested in advance by adding the following:

# cat /etc/portage/profile/virtuals
virtual/x11     -*

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