On 5/16/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
