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From: <burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:41:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AA0639A1EB70AE409130258CE7BDC31806646AD9@messenger.cv63.navy.mil> (raw)


> 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:
> >   


That is exactly what the xorg-x11 metapackage is designed to do.
If you don't add in a million USE flags that don't want to play nice, 
then it should all compile (in theory).  I say in theory, because
there are always things that can possibly get in the way.  Bugs happen 
on occasion.  I am learning how to properly use USE flags myself. ^_^

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-21  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21  1:41 burlingk [this message]
2007-05-30 15:59 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Enrico Weigelt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-18 10:26 burlingk
2007-05-18  4:56 burlingk
2007-05-18 10:01 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-05-18 17:35   ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-05-18 22:48 ` Neil Walker
2007-05-04 10:37 [gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 Remy Blank
     [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 16:03                   ` 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
2007-05-20 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

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