[arch-dev-public] Xorg dummy package removal
Hi everyone, As recently pointed out in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37062&p=1 the xorg dummy package has been removed. While this could have been done a bit more elegantly and with warning, it's been done, and I'm post-emptively giving warning now I guess. Anyone maintaining packages with the dependency on 'xorg' please update your packages. Nothing should EVER depend on 'xorg' - use namcap to find out what the true deps to your package are and add them. Some packages in extra, community, and AUR-unsupported probably need fixes. To preserve convenience of installing Xorg, we're considering doing an xorg group between the packages previously pulled by the xorg metapackage. I'll follow up to this email when that's done. Thanks. -- Travis
2007/9/6, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org>:
Hi everyone,
As recently pointed out in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37062&p=1 the xorg dummy package has been removed. While this could have been done a bit more elegantly and with warning, it's been done, and I'm post-emptively giving warning now I guess.
Anyone maintaining packages with the dependency on 'xorg' please update your packages. Nothing should EVER depend on 'xorg' - use namcap to find out what the true deps to your package are and add them. Some packages in extra, community, and AUR-unsupported probably need fixes.
To preserve convenience of installing Xorg, we're considering doing an xorg group between the packages previously pulled by the xorg metapackage. I'll follow up to this email when that's done.
Bug report for packages with xorg dependency: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6965 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Travis Willard schrieb:
To preserve convenience of installing Xorg, we're considering doing an xorg group between the packages previously pulled by the xorg metapackage. I'll follow up to this email when that's done.
The xorg-clients package is also empty, so dependencies should be removed there as well and the package should be deleted.
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 18:02 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Travis Willard schrieb:
To preserve convenience of installing Xorg, we're considering doing an xorg group between the packages previously pulled by the xorg metapackage. I'll follow up to this email when that's done.
The xorg-clients package is also empty, so dependencies should be removed there as well and the package should be deleted.
Both xorg and xorg-clients used to be full blown packages with all the contents of the packages they depend on at least. These two packages were added for upgrade purposes. So now the question is: which package should replace xorg-clients and which package should replace xorg? Old installations shouldn't have this package on the system anymore. Actually, when people do have the old versions with contents on their system, they would get file conflicts during upgrade/install of other package, since nothing forces removal of these packages.
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Jan de Groot
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Roman Kyrylych
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Thomas Bächler
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Travis Willard