On 7 April 2017 at 15:13, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Also, one question. Does this have any effect on qemu-native? Does
> > > qemu-native need/use x11 today?
> > qemu itself does not use anything x11 since last year and the default
> > native packageconfig is already not
> > dependent on distro features.
> >
> > Now that you mentioned I had a closer look at qemu & SDL:
> >  * qemu-native doesn't build with "sdl" by default, but someone might
> > change that of course
> >  * If that happens (and libsdl-native is not in ASSUME_PROVIDED),
> > libsdl is built and by default depends on libx11
> > I completely expected this to fail now (without x11 in distro
> > features) but it actually builds just fine. It turns out that a
> > clever Burton has tweaked
> > REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES_class-native for some X libraries for
> > exactly this purpose already.
>
> Right, we actually have a commented section for sdl and qemu in our
> local.conf.sample so we do need to test and figure this piece out.
>
> Would we want to put x11 in the default native distro flags to avoid
> some of the other issues above?