Attn: Maintainers of things which might depend on xorg-x11-xkbdata
Mike A. Harris
mharris at mharris.ca
Tue Jul 11 22:14:05 UTC 2006
Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On 7/8/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
>> Note that similar strategy is used throughout all of the
>> X.Org modular packaging, and packagers should always use
>> a virtual dependency on modular X items if one exists
>> already (ie: xdm, xfs, Xorg, Xnest, Xvfb, individual
>> binaries present in various apps/utils packages, etc.).
>> This helps to futureproof everything as much as possible,
>> and while in a perfect world the packaging of things
>> shouldn't really change much, nobody's planned on it
>> changing and it has changed 4-5 times over the last
>> 2-3 years, so using virtual provides/requires for this
>> stuff now, helps to save everyone headaches in the
>> future.
>
> Could we have a page in fedoraproject.org with a list of those virtual
> dependencies? it would really save a lot of time when packaging
That's not a bad idea, but it wouldn't track the actual contents
of the packages in realtime as dependencies are added, etc.
I could also comment about what the intention of each virtual
provide is, so that people would (hopefully) use them correctly.
If someone feels up to creating such a page on the wiki and populating
it, I'd be happy to review it and comment, etc.
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Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
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