[SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Wed May 24 19:05:48 EDT 2006


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On Wed, 24 May 2006, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Andraž "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
>> I don't see any clear reason for all these failures I personaly only
>> had one problem. DRI not working unless I built using libxinerama.
>> 
>> Anyway here's the plan I have in mind(just in case a space-time vortex 
>> sucks me in).
>> 
>> Create the following spells in -modular:
>> xorg-libs - to provide X11-LIBS, remove X11-LIBS provider from xorg-server,
>>            will provide for now the entire xorg-libs section until spells
>>            have proper handling of -modular
>
> You'll either need a different name or change the name of the
> xorg-libs section.
>
>> xorg-utils - to provide X11-UTILS, add X11-UTILS to all monolithic spells,
>>             will provide everything in xorg-utils section
>
> Can't they just depend on those spells if $(get_spell_provider  $SPELL
> X11-LIBS) == "xorg-server"? More providers may annoy people. ;)
<snip>

And all they'd need to do is check the above and depend on
xorg-util-profile to depend on all of xorg-util. No need for a
provider, IMO.

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