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Bug 312913 - x11-base/xorg-x11-7.5: Why no meta package?
Summary: x11-base/xorg-x11-7.5: Why no meta package?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2010-04-03 04:55 UTC by Jeremy Murphy
Modified: 2011-03-08 11:40 UTC (History)
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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 :)