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

["Joseph Booker" <joe@neoturbine.net>]

On Thu, November 18, 2004 11:08 am, Donnie Berkholz said:
> 1. No fonts. None. Zero. This means X always dies with "Can't find font
> fixed" unless you provide your own. This could potentially be changed if
> I find a way to just build the "misc" fonts.

'essentialfonts' USE flag, on by default

> 2. None of Tad's fancy cursors

'fancycursors', probably on by default

> 3. No clients. This includes xfs, xdm and xkbcomp.

ok, probably somethign that should be in 'minimal'

> 4. Nothing in /usr/share/doc

'doc'

> 5. No Xnest or Xvfb
> 7. For x86 only, remove these video drivers: nsc, glint, tga, s3,
> s3virge, rendition, neomagic, i740, cirrus, tseng, trident, chips, apm,
> ark, cyrix, siliconmotion. I wasn't sure what was safe for other archs
> and didn't want to play around without some more research.
> Of those, the only questionable ones to me are s3, s3virge and
> especially siliconmotion. I could see the latter being popular on
> systems that would otherwise use the "minimal" flag.

How about a VIDEO_DRIVERS enviroment var thats set in make.conf or command
line, that let the ebuild checks for - if its something like 'trident fb
i810', then it builds those, if its not set or empty, then it builds
everything. i think your able to specify alsa drivers in some ebuild that
way

> 8. No man pages

again, the 'doc' USE flag


Wasn't there a GLEP about USE flag grouping? just make '-doc -fancycursors
minimal -fonts' in a USE flag group, when/if that functionality gets into
portage

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