Bug 312913

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-x11-7.5: Why no meta package?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeremy Murphy <jeremy.william.murphy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeremy Murphy 2010-04-03 04:55:00 UTC

This is sort of a bump request but moreover an inquiry as to why there is no xorg-x11-7.5 meta package?  I guess it's not strictly necessary, but I wonder if this meta package is an underpowered feature that potentially could allow users to change their entire X.org release?  And could allow developers to segregate releases if that seemed like a good idea.  (By which I mean, for example, xorg-x11-7.4 might depend on >=xorg-server-1.5 AND <xorg-server-1.7, requiring an upgrade to xorg-x11-7.5 for xorg-server-1.7.)  Anyway, that's just an idea, it may do more bad than good.

So to reiterate the core question: where's xorg-x11-7.5?  :)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-05 18:35:04 UTC

It's just a meta package that pulls in other packages, ie it's just an empty shell. And it's an empty shell that pulls in a *lot* of crap, which most users will never ever need.

That's why we don't really care about it, although we might resurrect it if upstream keeps doing regular releases.

Cheers

Comment 2 Jeremy Murphy 2010-04-08 10:55:12 UTC

Heh, I experimented with removing all the crap, and everything was fine until the old commercial chemical modelling software that we use failed to work.  Turns out that it depends on some of those miscellaneous fonts.  Ah well, lesson learned.

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-08 11:40:46 UTC

Closing as wontfix instead of later.

We simply have no motivation to bump the package as-is now. It might change in future but for now it is just useless copying :)