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 4.54) id 1F1f3v-000549-Ps for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:27:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0P7QKPB028780; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:26:20 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0P7OWR3023180 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:24:32 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1F1f16-000137-4E for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:24:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F1f10-0006zW-9f for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:24:26 +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:24:21 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X Message-ID: <20060125072421.7b0b2693@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200601251608.07390.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <43D5D1E4.9020801@gentoo.org> <43D71A79.6020104@gentoo.org> <20060125065327.2d39a0d2@snowdrop.home> <200601251608.07390.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_OdFV7u3d5cjXZpi_FjioHbx; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: ca2fdcad-1fa0-417d-9334-85a80d7776fe X-Archives-Hash: e743c5d64138b5bd25001878d7d3ea38 --Sig_OdFV7u3d5cjXZpi_FjioHbx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:08:07 +0900 Jason Stubbs wrote: | > Uh, given that you can do that with old style virtuals, methinks | > that isn't the case... |=20 | Only by modifying every ebuild that has a virtual/x11 dependency. The | atom "virtual/x11" cannot be limited to specific versions on its own | with old style virtuals. Oh? There's at least one old style virtual that specifies a full dep atom rather than a package name. I know this because it broke my first virtuals parser that was expecting a straight name... | The premise for not doing this is that packages will never be fixed, | right? Why not make the modular X provide virtual/x11 and just | institute a policy that no new packages can go into stable with a | virtual/x11 dependency? It could even be easily enforcable if | necessary. Much more sensible. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_OdFV7u3d5cjXZpi_FjioHbx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1yep96zL6DUtXhERAnCrAKDULs4cO9y2auM4Sz+rel+HV3HBRgCfTsAk OKN9vgrOEFAL+/a+nQNRD3o= =G2DY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_OdFV7u3d5cjXZpi_FjioHbx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list