Attn: Maintainers of things which might depend on xorg-x11-xkbdata

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 07:48:20 UTC 2006


On 7/8/06, Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
> Note that similar strategy is used throughout all of the
> X.Org modular packaging, and packagers should always use
> a virtual dependency on modular X items if one exists
> already (ie: xdm, xfs, Xorg, Xnest, Xvfb, individual
> binaries present in various apps/utils packages, etc.).
> This helps to futureproof everything as much as possible,
> and while in a perfect world the packaging of things
> shouldn't really change much, nobody's planned on it
> changing and it has changed 4-5 times over the last
> 2-3 years, so using virtual provides/requires for this
> stuff now, helps to save everyone headaches in the
> future.

Could we have a page in fedoraproject.org with a list of those virtual
dependencies? it would really save a lot of time when packaging




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