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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] X11 dependencies
Date: Tue Feb 20 22:51:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A935120.B5EE0B82@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010220162231.A2055@kabbu.akopia.com

"Jerry A!" wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:14:10PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> : Hi,
> :
> : I was wondering, perhaps we should make XFree86 provide virtual/x11,
> : and then make packages that just require x11 depend on
> : virtual/x11. That way, if one day gentoo is supported on platforms
> : that dont use xfree86 (like just the regular X consortium version) we
> : won't have to change a bunch of other stuff. Other packages that
> : require XFree86 extensions (like DRI or whatnot) could depend on
> : Xfree86 specifically. What do you think?
>
> Damn!!!  That's a good idea.  How come we never thought of it?  I'm
> gonna go sulk now.  8)

Ok I will do this. I have not reworked much of the xfree dependend
packages, so it should not be a big thing.

achim~

>
>
>         --Jerry
>
> name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
> phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
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>                                   ||  than that!
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-21  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-20 14:15 [gentoo-dev] X11 dependencies Pete Gavin
2001-02-20 14:23 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-20 22:51   ` Achim Gottinger [this message]

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