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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <bearcat AT feline-soul.net>]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 23:20:24 Eric Sandall 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.

>

> Feel free to "cleanup" my changes, but no one else was doing it and it's

> been over a year, so I did.

>

> -sandalle

Well, i have a working x-server system, yet dbus has an optional dependancy on X11-LIBS. Yet it tells me (0) [none]. How is that possible? Do i need

to cast xorg-libs (i doubt that) or is the dbus spell and possibly others screwed up?

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