From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg INPUT and VIDEO USE flags
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:58:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610161958.30553.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610161848.12977.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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On Monday 16 October 2006 16:48, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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).
[snip]
> So the variable is only used by the ebuild that actually does the
> merging.
[snip]
> But the output you are getting is correct per my current understanding
> of portage
Thank you for the explanation. I got an error with the xf86-drivers-ati
emerge that followed my xorg emerges today, but will start thread for that.
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Regards,
Mick
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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
2006-10-16 19:58 ` Mick [this message]
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