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From: Denis Dupeyron <calchan@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:34:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l2r7c612fc61004142034x5e23aeb2tdc184b478a95e9d6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC4BC2F.7000101@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
<phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I think that the packages that currently depend on one icon theme, could
> instead just depend on that virtual. For example, xfce works fine
> without the xfce theme, provided some other theme (like gnome or tango)
> is there.
>
> Is it a requirement that more than one package should depend on it until
> we can extract a virtual? I think it would simplify managing the
> dependencies anyway.

This is very similar to when you want to add a global USE flag. In
that case we usually require 5 packages and a general non-specific
purpose. It can easily be translated to the present situation.

More practically I would say: use your brain. If you think it makes
sense then go for it.

Denis.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-11 19:38 [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-04-11 19:54 ` Petteri Räty
2010-04-11 23:27   ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-13 18:47   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2010-04-15  3:34     ` Denis Dupeyron [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-02 18:20 Markos Chandras
2011-08-02 18:30 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-08-02 18:44   ` Markos Chandras
2011-08-06 11:00   ` Markos Chandras
2011-08-08  9:52     ` Markos Chandras
2011-08-08 16:48       ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-08-02 18:32 ` Alex Alexander
2011-08-02 18:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2011-08-08 16:58   ` Maciej Mrozowski
2011-08-09 12:34     ` Markos Chandras
2011-08-02 18:48 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-08-02 18:54   ` Alex Alexander

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