From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZXja-0000CS-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:02:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9GJ0Vq7017209; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:00:31 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9GIwKGc019974 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:58:20 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so803335ugc for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:58:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=iCv0E3n2/ODJI/LOG3EQSWRuRy4itZHU5kpLCPMnAF+8/UP38Og/R/3Gs75iqenjU70xcQPJVPMQRPjBbSuHPbyBtWMPaAkuzqahnBOXbN1Ml2seMaL81ZmVy89nZa8cDPctZgnjkjLNiFDmWcWbIk4J1fpzCOUmZ5BjNrUgLY4= Received: by 10.67.91.6 with SMTP id t6mr8649295ugl; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l33sm1716996ugc.2006.10.16.11.58.18; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:58:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200610161557.06453.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <358eca8f0610160910v40406e75rf585b932eb16ff9a@mail.gmail.com> <200610161848.12977.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200610161848.12977.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart24711789.z7dhZHJmII"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610161958.30553.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: eaa30488-3718-40b8-af3e-7af2e6fdf959 X-Archives-Hash: 40527ac6b265df888d60106ac12f35e1 --nextPart24711789.z7dhZHJmII Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 emerge that followed my xorg emerges today, but will start thread for that. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart24711789.z7dhZHJmII Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFM+Rm5Fp0QerLYPcRAlGJAJ9DOhvVMt53+cm2GEuIU2OAb1lq4wCgh1J/ 0XBQ8UP2MnqLixYn4+6a2jw= =tgOm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart24711789.z7dhZHJmII-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list