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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up
- From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 AT fastmail.fm>
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:22:53 +0000
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:20:24 -0700
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 23:11:42 Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> > On 02:46:20 2008-03-21 "Bearcat M. Sandor" <bearcat AT feline-soul.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > i recently updated my git grimore with the latest xorg-modular spells.
> > > My mouse is all sorts of messed up, but that's beside the point.
> > >
> > > In trying to fix it, i recast dbus i am told i have no providers of
> > > X11-LIBS. In #sourcemage the bot tells you that xorg-server provides
> > > it, but it does not. Xorg-server provides X11-SERVER. What would seem
> > > to provide it is xorg-libs but this latest git pull has exiled it.
> > >
> > > Something is a miss here.
> >
> > I changed nothing in that regards... you might have hit sandalle's work
> > though... That could break it... All I did was update the versions and
> > test
> > cast them :)
> >
> > And last I checked xorg-server also provides X11-LIBS... if it does not
> > it's a valid BUG... BTW xorg-libs is just a profile spell it doesn't
> > install anything... just depends on a few libs... Hopefully once we get
> > rid
> > of the monolithic providers we can drop the X11-LIBS and X11-SERVER
> > providers as well as everything will depends on specific libs...
>
> To simplify, xorg-server now depends on xorg-libs and no longer provides
> X11-LIBS. Why? It doesn't actually provide X11-LIBS, but instead depends on
> other stuff that provides X11-LIBS.
>
> As for breakage, my changes *should* not be causing that as I changed all
> apps
> to directly depend upon the proper packages and no longer using the X11-*
> providers. The packages have been left providing X11-* for other grimoires
> (e.g. games) to continue to work until this (some day) hits stable.
Erm, if "all apps" now depend on "the proper libraries", does this mean that
xorg-monolithic users can no longer cast many X apps?
> Feel free to "cleanup" my changes, but no one else was doing it and it's
> been
> over a year, so I did.
>
> -sandalle
>
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Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 AT fastmail.fm>
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[SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 03/20/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Eric Sandall, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Ethan Grammatikidis, 03/21/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up, Eric Sandall, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 03/21/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up, Eric Sandall, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Ethan Grammatikidis, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Eric Sandall, 03/21/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular and PROVIDES seem screwed up,
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 03/21/2008
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