On February 5, 2018 2:30:06 PM CST, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote: >On 05/02/2018 21:14, DJ Lucas wrote: >> On February 5, 2018 1:44:46 PM CST, "Armin K." <[email protected]> >wrote: >>> A new package has been released which bundles all of the current >xorg >>> protocol headers packages. See >>> >>> >https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-February/002835.html >> >> That's nice for source builders, but what happens to the distros? 30+ >provides? I'm concerned it might not stick around. Antithesis to the >split, and I don't want anything that even remotely smells of host.def >creeping it's way back in (that's not *actually* possible)! :-) I could >be wrong, time will tell. Silly nostalgia aside, unless we are forced >to do so, I'd rather not address this in the book until after 8.2. >> > >Well, I guess it's not that bad for distros, because proto packages are >"-dev" >on Debian, "devel" on other distros, and only devel packages might >depend on >protos (that is, not so many) > >But I do not think there is any emergency in including the merge >package into >the book, and certainly not before 8.2! Who files an "x-future" ticket, >so >that we don't forget? >Pierre >-- >http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page
It's more the provides/replaces/supplies arrays that concern me if a single package. Guess it's really not that big of a change as the distros will just wind up splitting it up into individual packages and keep existing individual versions. Have the individual projects continued releasing updated packages? --DJ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
