Bug 289957

Summary:	move x11-base/xorg-x11 from world to system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Emery Hemingway <emery>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Emery Hemingway 2009-10-21 05:50:46 UTC

I was thinking it might be nice if xorg-x11 was in the scope of system packages. I think that very few people concern themselves with the dependencies of xorg, as changes aren't really tangible to the end user. I use emerge -uD system when I want a system up to date, but don't waste energy on packages I barely use. I regard updating the xorg-x11 meta package the same way.

(Please note I wouldn't bring this up if I didn't think it relative simple to implement.)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 proDOOMman 2009-10-21 06:43:19 UTC

Many people haven't X11 on their systems. May be you should add xorg-x11 to system independently?

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-21 08:05:23 UTC

No way. The system set defines a minimal set of packages which are needed to get a linux system booted and working.
Consider a user setting up a gentoo-server being forced to install xorg-x11 just because it's in the system set. 
This kind of changes will never happen.

Comment 3 Emery Hemingway 2009-10-24 00:35:25 UTC

Ok, I guess I didn't understand how the system set worked.
Sorry