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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: xinerama in xorg-x11-7.0-r1?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:44:09
Message-Id: pan.2006.03.01.00.40.37.333277@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xinerama in xorg-x11-7.0-r1? by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish posted
2 <7573e9640602281239s20eb1796sb6ad626f76f68e31@××××××××××.com>, excerpted
3 below, on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:39:11 -0700:
4
5 > On 2/28/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
6 >> Indeed, it seems to be. I don't see the flag there any more, altho I
7 >> could swear it used to be. <shrug>
8 >
9 > You are not wrong here! From the changelog:
10 >
11 > 02 Nov 2005; Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>;
12 > xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc1.ebuild:
13 > Remove xinerama USE flag and make it mandatory. A large number of
14 > applications have mandatory xinerama, so having the library optional makes
15 > things unnecessarily complex.
16
17 Thanks! That makes me feel better! =8^) Such a string of bad luck, I was
18 beginning to wonder if this is how Alzheimer's or mad cow disease starts
19 or something, especially when I could have sworn the flag was there!
20
21 I must have figured things out and merged it right about time they removed
22 the flag.
23
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25 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
26 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
27 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
28 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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