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 4.50) id 1ESgRt-0002i4-JW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:51:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9KJlF6M010380; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:47:15 GMT Received: from mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (mail-relay-1.tiscali.it [213.205.33.41]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9KJgHEG020425 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:42:17 GMT Received: from default (84.222.83.222) by mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (7.2.063) id 4342BE4700190310 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:44:17 +0200 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:48:38 +0200 X-Mailer: InScribe Message-ID: <52ZKB4.136721026EZE64L@gentoo.org> References: <200510202116.47326.danarmak@gentoo.org> To: From: "Kevin F. Quinn" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 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: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 84b86034-d219-46e1-9a23-aba6b1787bb0 X-Archives-Hash: 64ac49bd6a95181f5fc33ab890a345d8 On 20/10/2005 21:16:47, Dan Armak (danarmak@gentoo.org) wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote: > > On 10/20/05, Dan Armak wrote: > > > To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e. > > > 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags. > > > > What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag? > It wouldn't solve the problem at hand. > > Without any flag at all, the user needs to 'emerge xorg-x11' manually to > get eg KDE to run locally. With an off-by-default flag, he needs to set > it on manually, _before_ installing KDE, to get an xorg-x11 server. As > long as he needs to do something manually, explicitly, it should just be > an 'emerge xorg-x11', which after all is a very simple operation. Maybe I'm being stupid, but I don't understand why a user would need to emerge xorg-x11 manually when doing 'emerge kde'. Surely somewhere in kde's dependency graph the X server is called up in RDEPEND? An X server is clearly a run-time dependency. Like, konqueror RDEPENDS on qt which RDEPENDS on xorg-xserver, or whatever. Kev. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list