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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/*
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 08:05:32
Message-Id: 1511597118.6512.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* by Matt Turner
1 W dniu pią, 24.11.2017 o godzinie 18∶02 -0800, użytkownik Matt Turner
2 napisał:
3 > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Richard Bradfield <bradfier@×××××.me> wrote:
4 > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver
7 > > > versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the
8 > > > upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between
9 > > > zero and one person to use.
10 > > > ...
11 > > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting
12 > >
13 > >
14 > > I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for
15 > > this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for
16 > > which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with
17 > > xf86-video-modesetting.
18 >
19 > You must not have updated in quite a while if it's still installed on
20 > your system. The driver has been included in the xserver since 1.17
21 > (with the appropriate blocker).
22 >
23 > The driver's not going away, just the separate package :)
24
25 You should probably update the p.mask message to make that clear.
26 Possibly maybe even split this driver (and any other that is not
27 necessary) to a separate mask.
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>