From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Xserver @ oss-qm overlay [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies ...]
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:43:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070530154325.GB10388@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070520185534.075863de@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
* Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:49:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> > The circular dependencies between Xserver and drivers do not come
> > from upstream. They're artificial. If we just want an simple-to-use
> > package which gets the Xserver *and* drivers based on useflags
> > (which IMHO is an good idea), it's quite trivial to do this by an
> > virtual/meta package. I've did it and it works good. You can get
> > it from my overlay via CVS:
>
> How is this different prom portage installing the server and required
> drivers according to USE flag settings?
The difference is that you have *really NO* circular dependency.
PDEPENDS are in fact depencencies (no matter how many people deny
this fact), but with some hint for serialization. An additional
complexity which is not needed with my approach.
cu
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 10:37 [gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 Remy Blank
2007-05-07 13:12 ` marco restelli
[not found] ` <f1nd4o$17g$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-05-07 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2007-05-07 15:11 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-08 14:14 ` Dmitry
2007-05-08 14:35 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 14:53 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 16:09 ` Grant Edwards
2007-05-07 18:00 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-07 18:32 ` Grant Edwards
2007-05-07 18:44 ` Francisco Rivas
[not found] ` <f2d5ap$t7j$1@sea.gmane.org>
2007-05-15 20:56 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 5:44 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-16 12:51 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 12:59 ` Remy Blank
2007-05-16 14:23 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-16 15:47 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 16:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-17 15:46 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-16 16:34 ` Rob Rutherford
2007-05-16 22:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 13:44 ` [OT] Jakub back? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]) Naga Toro
2007-05-17 13:59 ` Bryan Østergaard
2007-05-17 16:03 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-17 17:21 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-18 10:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-19 3:00 ` Kent Fredric
2007-05-20 16:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-20 17:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-30 15:43 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2007-05-20 23:32 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-21 1:15 ` kashani
2007-05-21 9:57 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-05-21 10:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-05-21 11:15 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-16 22:51 ` kashani
2007-05-16 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-17 23:19 ` Mark Shields
2007-05-16 15:51 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-16 22:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-16 22:40 ` Dale
2007-05-16 23:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-05-17 16:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-17 17:20 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-17 20:40 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 18:21 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-05-16 21:31 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-16 15:58 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-16 21:42 ` Jerry McBride
2007-05-16 21:57 ` Dale
2007-05-16 20:53 ` [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs Remy Blank
2007-05-16 21:01 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-05-17 8:39 ` [gentoo-user] Can't start apache Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 9:00 ` Randy Barlow
2007-05-17 9:15 ` [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved] Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 10:05 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 11:21 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-17 11:28 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
2007-05-17 12:33 ` Johannes Skov Frandsen
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