Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-server 1.0.99/1.1 ABI break

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> So imho, that's a lot of unlikely conditions one should join to end
> with broken drivers, and i don't think you should care too much about
> it.

Thanks for your input.

> The ati --> {mach64,radeon,r128} change may make some of the above more
> likely to happen though: for instance, i have VIDEO_CARDS="ati dummy"
> on my laptop, and with 'ati' deprecation, only 'dummy' would get
> updated. But:
>  - at the opposite of the xorg-x11 meta ebuild, a pkg_setup check
> xorg-server ("if hasq ati $VIDEO_CARDS; then eerror ...") makes sense,
> since it would die at the right time, before the drivers updates.

FYI, the video cards stuff makes use of USE_EXPAND. This means that we
don't use has/hasq, we do 'use video_cards_ati'.

Thanks,
Donine


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