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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HpwxP-0003q2-IR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:45:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4L1htY7021580; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:43:55 GMT Received: from dnsmail3.fleet.navy.mil (pacfa.fleet.navy.mil [205.56.145.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4L1dYjQ016706 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:39:35 GMT Received: from VSCAN3 ([157.153.3.104]) by dnsmail3.fleet.navy.mil (8.12.11.SSC-RH.1/8.12.9) with SMTP id l4L1d1TC018380 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:39:31 GMT Received: from cv63ucsex1.cv63.navy.mil ([157.153.3.104]) by VSCAN3 (SMSSMTP 4.1.11.41) with SMTP id M2007052101393227419 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:39:34 GMT Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:41:32 +0900 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs] Thread-Index: AcebREGVmhAgzGu1TdO1IJBD4az0xQABG+wg From: To: X-Archives-Salt: 9ac9ffaf-fa33-42a4-9ab5-7a33b9dd1c39 X-Archives-Hash: 39cc9d65f05f5fec8a1cdd530cf69d83 > 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=20 > > virtual/meta package. I've did it and it works good. You can get > > it from my overlay via CVS: > > =20 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,=20 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=20 on occasion. I am learning how to properly use USE flags myself. ^_^ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list