[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: xinerama in xorg-x11-7.0-r1?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Richard Fish posted
<7573e9640602281239s20eb1796sb6ad626f76f68e31@mail.gmail.com>, excerpted
below,  on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:39:11 -0700:

> On 2/28/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>> Indeed, it seems to be.  I don't see the flag there any more, altho I
>> could swear it used to be.  <shrug>
> 
> You are not wrong here!  From the changelog:
> 
>   02 Nov 2005; Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>;
>   xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc1.ebuild:
>   Remove xinerama USE flag and make it mandatory. A large number of
>   applications have mandatory xinerama, so having the library optional makes
>   things unnecessarily complex.

Thanks!  That makes me feel better! =8^)  Such a string of bad luck, I was
beginning to wonder if this is how Alzheimer's or mad cow disease starts
or something, especially when I could have sworn the flag was there!

I must have figured things out and merged it right about time they removed
the flag.

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