Subject: Re: modular xorg packages?
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 05/03/2007 15:16:45
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:10:01PM +0200, Daniel Horecki wrote:
> Probably problem exists, when somebody switches from xorg to modular.
> xorg installs xkbfile with xorg-libs. Installing libxkbfile and/or
> uninstalling xorg-libs helps. Or it can be installed
> wip/modular-xorg-libs. When you uninstall xorg-libs, every package
> using X is deinstalled :-)

The only problem here is when users don't consistenly set X11_TYPE. The
packages don't enforce this as we do want to use them as fallback at
some point in the future. Noone has written builtin detection logic for
them and I really don't want to as I don't see the need.

Joerg