Re: dependencies out of hand?

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Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
Date
20 Nov 2007 14:35:04
Subject
Re: dependencies out of hand?
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200711201734.57547.yuri.pankov@gmail.com


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On Tuesday 20 November 2007 17:27:30 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On 20 2007, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> = New xorg-server utilizes sysutils/hal for hardware autodetection,
> glib20 = and cdrecord are dependencies of hal (can be turned off
> using = WITHOUT_HAL). It also needs dbus, polkit and so on. Not sure
> about gtk.
>
> Thanks, Yuri. But I could trace the dependencies myself. My point

Well, sorry for the noise.

> was, something is wrong if an unrelated utility such as cdrecord and
> a large (and frequently changing) library such as glib are both
> /required/ to build the X-server.
>
> Maybe, the WITHOUT_HAL knob should be more visible... Maybe, it
> should not require cdrecord by default.
>
> I don't have a solution -- I'm just pointing out a problem...
>
> -mi


Yuri


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