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Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at> posted |
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46EE991D.1010201@×××××××××××.at, excerpted below, on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 |
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17:11:25 +0200: |
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> So the dependency is required by x11-7.3, which is also experimental. (I |
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> just updated to 7.2.) Mask that, too. |
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[output reformatted a bit for posting] |
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$epkginfo xorg-server |
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Package: x11-base/xorg-server |
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Herd: x11 |
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Maintainer: x11 |
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Location: /p/x11-base/xorg-server |
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Keywords: xorg-server-1.2.0-r3: mips |
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Keywords: xorg-server-1.3.0.0: ppc ppc64 |
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alpha arm amd64 hppa x86 sparc ia64 sh |
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Keywords: xorg-server-1.4-r1: ~arm ~hppa ~x86 ~amd64 |
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~ppc ~sh ~x86-fbsd ~ia64 ~alpha ~sparc ~ppc64 ~mips |
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So xorg-server-1.3 is no longer experimental. |
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However, note that Gentoo (or more precisely, the several of the Gentoo |
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projects in question including the Gentoo xorg folks) recently instituted |
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a policy of no longer waiting on the developers of closed source modules |
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to catch up, when the software is stable on open source module supported |
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hardware. |
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IMO, it's about time. Now those who are slowing down progress get to |
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deal with some of the headaches they were causing everyone else. |
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So it's possible that newer stable versions won't work so well on |
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hardware dependent on closed source modules, including NVidia and newer |
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ATI Radeon (for now, AMD is releasing specs now, but it'll take a few |
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months to work them into new drivers) video cards for those who want 3D |
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support. The legacy versions should remain in the tree for some time, |
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and users dependent on them can mask newer versions as necessary. |
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> The nv driver does not provide 3d capabilities. |
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Unfortunately true, alto they are working on reverse engineering 3D |
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support. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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