Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:

<snip>

> *What* are you talking about? PDEPENDs are packages that should be emerged 
> *after* the package in question. That A depends on B to be emerged *after* A 
> and B depends on A to be emerged *before* B does not produce a circular 
> dependency!

In some situations they're in fact circular, ie. when using binary
packages. 

BTW: I don't see any reason why the whole Xserve should be recompiled
if just some other device driver is needed.

> The PDEPEND of xorg-server is a convenience for the user to only need to set 
> VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES (or stick with the defaults) and have 
> xorg-server pull in only the requested drivers after itself.

Why not simply an virtual for that ?
I did it in my overlay, and it works very fine.

<snip>

> > If you want some package which pulls in an complete Xserver installation
> > *and* drivers (based on certain useflags), why not just an virtual
> > package ?
> 
> virtuals are similar to meta packages (if you look at their contents) 
> with one very important difference.
> 
> virtuals provide a minimal functionality that other packages can 
> depend on without caring about what provides it. meta packages 
> are a convenience to the users that pulls in a bunch of packages 
> and hence nothing is allowed to depend on them.

meta or virtual - where's the technical difference ? 

I don't care about how you call them, but pulling in the drivers
should not belong to the server package, but an separate one.


cu
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