From: Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: xserver-xorg rdepends
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:53:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gd8630$66f$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224184795.4235.133.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com>
On 16-10-2008 21:19, Phil Blundell wrote:
> I discovered today that xorg-xserver-common.inc has:
>
> RDEPENDS_${PN} = "hal"
>
> which seems a bit undesirable. I propose to remove this hard-wired
> dependency; any DISTRO who wants to keep it can specify that in their
> own config file.
>
> Any objections?
Yes. Recent xservers need hal for various input systems to work
correctly. So instead of crippling the xserver you can keep a crippled
version in your personal tree or overlay.
The rdepends is there because someone has split out libhal main hal
package, having hal dependant apps break for not being able to contact
the hal daemon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 19:19 xserver-xorg rdepends Phil Blundell
2008-10-16 19:53 ` Koen Kooi [this message]
2008-10-16 20:02 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-16 20:17 ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-17 11:54 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-17 8:51 ` Phil Blundell
2008-10-17 11:59 ` Otavio Salvador
2008-10-17 15:55 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
2008-10-17 17:09 ` Koen Kooi
2008-10-17 18:05 ` Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
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