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From: Richard Bradfield <bradfier@×××××.me>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/*
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 06:53:43
Message-Id: 20171124065259.h42pp2em5lomvnu4@arch.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* by Matt Turner
1 On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
2 >Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver
3 >versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the
4 >upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between
5 >zero and one person to use.
6 > ...
7 >x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting
8
9 I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for
10 this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for
11 which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with
12 xf86-video-modesetting.
13
14 Obviously not asking you to keep putting in effort just for me, so what
15 are my next steps if this package is masked and I later need to update?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>