[gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 needs testers

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

In -r4 (previously -r2), we've moved /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib and
created a symlink. This obviously results in some significant changes.

6.8.0-r4 is hard-masked. It will take a little work to emerge. If you
can't figure out how to test it, I'd prefer that you don't test it for
now.

It adds some new USE flags that most of you will want to enable,
including: font-server, opengl, truetype-fonts, type1-fonts and xv. They
are all described in /usr/portage/profiles/use.* so I won't describe
them again. I will be adding most of these flags to the defaults in
profiles, with the possible exception of font-server.

Another USE flag that I'm pleased with is "minimal." It disables
building all of the sample clients, all of the fonts and many of the
drivers. A test install using this was 28MB, compared to 100MB-150MB for
a full-featured install.

The final new flag is uclibc, for people using a uclibc-based Gentoo
installation.

There are also a number of miscellaneous fixes, including bugs:
38549: Newport acceleration (MIPS machines)
70431: Fix Xnest segfaults
64929, 59746, 60131: Fix totem, kaffeine, gxine lockups
63767: Support Cherry CyMotion Master XPress and IBM Space Saver
keyboards
67845: Fix dual-monitor Radeon setups
68414: Build the Lucida 75dpi and 100dpi fonts
68726: Add xbox nvidia driver
fd.o 1501: Prevent libGL segfault when /dev/dri/card* are unreadable
64618: Fix unresolved symbol problems when using hardened and the
dlloader

Please file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org for each problem you encounter.

I'm unaware of any problems with the migration -r4 at present. However,
downgrading without uninstalling -r4 will result in any other versions
being installed to the symlinked /usr/X11R6/lib also. If anyone has a
good solution to this, please file a bug.

Thanks,
Donnie


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