Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-server 1.0.99/1.1 ABI break

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:19:48 -0700,
Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Simon Stelling wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> >> We are working to ensure the dependencies work as smoothly as
> >> possible, but I expect there will be some issues since it's
> >> difficult to require updates to all these optional drivers
> >> following an update to the server.
> > 
> > wouldn't !< atoms solve that problem?
> 
> The drivers cannot be upgraded until a newer server is installed. So
> technically, this would allow things to work by forcing people to
> unmerge all their drivers before upgrading, then remerge the new
> versions. That's not a very desirable solution either, but do you
> think it's the best one?
> 

What about a big PDEPEND in xorg-server-1.1 ebuild, with a bunch of
"video_cards_foobar? ( >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-foobar-NewVersion )"?
That should be enough to force a smooth update of the video drivers
after the server. And, the RDEPEND on video drivers could be removed
from the xorg-x11 meta-ebuild, to avoid redundancy.

Sure, it doesn't help users who have manually emerged some drivers
without listing them all in $VIDEO_CARDS: they will still be able to
update their server and keep some old broken drivers behind. But
hopefully, they won't be so numerous (much less numerous than those who
would be annoyed by some "!<..." block imho).

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