Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Olivier Crête wrote:
On Mon, 2006-17-04 at 13:05 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Alec Warner wrote:
Well the semantics of the blocker is that the new driver won't work
with the old server; is that true? Or just the old drivers won't
work with the new server?
New server requires new drivers. Old server requires old drivers.
There is no valid combination of new and old.
Then you should probably has new drivers block old servers and new
servers block old drivers...
OK, let's think about the results of this.
New drivers block old servers:
Rather, why wouldn't new drivers depend on a new server? This makes
sense and is already what we're doing.
New servers block old drivers:
This will require people to uninstall all their drivers to upgrade
their server. It will not automatically reinstall them in the 'emerge -u
xorg-server' case, but it _should_ reinstall them in the 'emerge -u
world' case _if_ they're using the xorg-x11 metabuild.
I'll take TGL's suggestion, New server PDEPENDS on new drivers.
New drivers need new server, old drivers won't work with new server,
doesn't touch the old driver ebuilds at all; I don't particularly see a
down side ;)
I'm not sure whether portage does a --deep by default now, but I think
that's what is necessary for correct behavior in the 'emerge -u world'
case.
It doesn't.
Thanks,
Donnie
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