On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:18, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:49, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > > I am guessing here; I don't know why it's hard masked.  I suggest you look
> > > at the ChangeLog and address the question to spyderous.
> > 
> > I don't see much in the ChangeLog to give any hints.  The listing in
> > package.mask is:
> > # <seemant@gentoo.org> 21 May, 2003
> > # Masked while it's still under development.  I need revision control on
> > the
> > # thing, which is why it's in portage at all.  Do NOT install this.
> > # 30 May, 2003 : Seems that xterm is in its own separate package as
> > well, so
> > # taking that out of -r3.  Added utempter, (dep for xterm to not install
> > # suid)
> > =x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6
> 
> Those notes are about a year old, and xfree-4.3.0-r6 needs neither a 
> separate xterm nor utempter.  

Apparently you haven't emerged it lately. =)

> On the other hand, xorg-x11 does need those
> packages. I think that by xfree-4.3.0-r5, xfree-4.3.0-r5,-r6 are pretty
> much the same except for the font paths.  But again, don't take my word
> for it. :)

There are lots of updates. Check a 13 Apr 2004 changelog entry and
another entry 14 Mar 2004 for some major details.
> 
> > I guess I would just like to see us using common font locations across
> > our 2 major X builds.
> >
> No one would dispute that.  And so far as I can tell, the way of the
> future for this is /usr/share/...
> 
> Try lobbying spyderous et. al. to shake loose -r6?  (I expect (or hope) 
> that xfree is not much longer with us, but that's because xorg-x11 seems
> cleaner on sparc, and that's where I live.)

Basically what's holding it up is a new opengl-update with a
--get-implementation feature and a couple other fixes. I have it written
but I'm adding a couple more little things to it, like fixing libtool
archives that link to /usr/lib/opengl/xfree so xorg-x11/xfree switches
are more seamless.

I'm not really pushing it very hard. I don't even expect all arches to
get it working, since we're moving over toward xorg-x11, which I've been
spending much of my X time working with.

Thanks,
-- 
Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo Linux