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

["Rob Rutherford" <rlrutherford@gmail.com>]

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On 5/16/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Which problem from the upstream ?
> I'm a little bit involved in Xorg development (especially on the
> modularizing project), so if you tell me the problem, I could fix it.
>
> The problem w/ x11-base/xorg-server are the PDEPENDs on (external)
> driver packages. I dont see any valid reason for depending the
> Xserver on drivers, which themselfes depend on the Xserver.
>
> If you want some package which pulls in an complete Xserver installation
> *and* drivers (based on certain useflags), why not just an virtual
> package ?
>
> IMHO, there were days where it had been done so (when PDEPEND did not
> yet exist). I don't know why this had changed, probably just to get
> an new feature widely used. (BTW: I do not see any valid reason for
> PDEPEND anyways)


Thanks, this was much more informative and useful than:

> I also want to say "Thank you" to the gentoo devs.
>
> Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies
> (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated.
>
> Cirular deps have been really sucking in SuSE and were one
> of the major for dropping it to me.
>
> Great, great thanks to the devs for forcing me to maintain my
> own overlay to clean up the crap. (anyone who's interested in
> it, please give a note).

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