From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O2FrG-0004nn-Ia for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:35:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C788E07E0; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FB9E077C for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D976785F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:34:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.965 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.965 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.634, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AWWYeCrL0VBV for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com (mail-ww0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68F71B401A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg30 with SMTP id 30so618726wwg.36 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:34:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9SHhqVaee4m5E08OeuyRMOdL0+Jqv+kDBcCYZYp52w8=; b=foaO8GrqIYJMnx3uTtDlwrxqsJYR10H5JVXXkdmYQmXpTnRzKdg8sRrHamMwj0ww4/ uXws875E4qvVYv6fwX3EjsOfJzez/Id/FloZZlP2Hw6OzkEfRYJ15EfcxdBwE1bnh7hj 7p9xd0Eh+CR9Ld+Ii4/9N2wAxKyn/Bu+dR5VA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=TEaAnlAmLnDXxcajwoZkFvsHzQMJWZl/Nj76vaaOllG+DGN55DUVXlTvODVetfNALK 5yio+MX0FkLmi/gtxywQtHUf1zBGsPMdwopn7muFBkd9Uo2C6Ba8o+yk4ydocLuBIfbn 8dILeOf8hP6QE0lFcZUZnPaSjIiksEI14vmOE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: denis.dupeyron@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.11.205 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:34:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BC4BC2F.7000101@gentoo.org> References: <4BC22543.3020606@gentoo.org> <4BC22906.3070807@gentoo.org> <4BC4BC2F.7000101@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:34:39 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 818b296677660b01 Received: by 10.216.87.75 with SMTP id x53mr6149704wee.144.1271302479951; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme From: Denis Dupeyron To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3823a714-4502-4c98-b418-4ef076cd37fe X-Archives-Hash: a6c2cde495f2f8acd67550ca686ead0b On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, "Pawe=C5=82 Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > I think that the packages that currently depend on one icon theme, could > instead just depend on that virtual. For example, xfce works fine > without the xfce theme, provided some other theme (like gnome or tango) > is there. > > Is it a requirement that more than one package should depend on it until > we can extract a virtual? I think it would simplify managing the > dependencies anyway. This is very similar to when you want to add a global USE flag. In that case we usually require 5 packages and a general non-specific purpose. It can easily be translated to the present situation. More practically I would say: use your brain. If you think it makes sense then go for it. Denis.