Re: xserver-xorg-driver-synaptics [was: Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5]
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 19:41 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:16:38PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 19:12 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > >
> > > As far as I can see x-x-i-kbd is ok, so based on that package I'd
> > > add:
> > >
> > > Replaces: xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35)
> > > Provides: xserver-xorg-input
> > >
> > > and remove the xserver-xorg-core dependency, correct?
> >
> > How will xserver-xorg-input-synaptics work without xserver-xorg-core?
>
> yeah, of course this is why the dependency is there :)
> But what if xserver-xorg-core already depends on input drivers?
That's the other direction, but FWIW, IIRC there was half a consensus to
move these dependencies from xserver-xorg-core to xserver-xorg to break
the dependency cycle.
> Also, the same can be said of xserver-xorg-input-kbd which does not
> depend on it.
That would be a bug then.
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