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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:48:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610161848.12977.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358eca8f0610160910v40406e75rf585b932eb16ff9a@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 16 October 2006 18:10, Mick wrote:
> Thanks Alan, but the question I meant to ask is: why only the
> xorg-server takes account of these flags, while the xorg-x11 doesn't?

xorg-x11 is a meta package. It's purpose is to merge various x11 
packages as dependencies and it doesn't do any merging on it's own.

Looking into the ebuilds, xorg-x11 only mentions VIDEO_CARDS and 
INPUT_DEVICES once in pkg_postinst() in an einfo saying you should now 
set these variables (presumably so that xorg-server can do the right 
thing when it's merged).

The xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 ebuild contains stuff like this:

PDEPEND="
  xorg? (
    input_devices_mouse? ( >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.0 )
    video_cards_radeon? ( >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.0 )

So the variable is only used by the ebuild that actually does the 
merging.

Your 'emerge xorg-x11' lists a bunch of USE flags in the output, but 
they are all disabled and appended with %, meaning they are new flags 
being used for the first time. Do the merge then try it again, you 
should find they are not listed the second time. Portage and the output 
it generates is in a state of flux recently with several updates in 
parid succession. It's sometimes a bit hard to keep up with the changes 
and remember what it's supposed to do today :-)

But the output you are getting is correct per my current understanding 
of portage

alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16 14:56 [gentoo-user] xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags Mick
2006-10-16 15:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-16 16:10   ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2006-10-16 16:48     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-16 19:58       ` Mick

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