Re: [gentoo-dev] a virtual advantage ?

[Alex Alexander]

On Jun 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Philip Webb" <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10
> & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard.
> Yes, it's happened before & I was not surprised:
> I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root
> -- experience long ago made me avoid booting directly into a GUI --
> & recompile 'xf86-input-evdev', after which everything returned to normal.
> Yes, there's a warning after the new 'xorg-drivers' has been installed,
> but I wasn't sure exactly which pkg(s) needed remerging, so took the
chance.
>
> My point is that it looks -- to a naive user -- like a good opportunity
> for another 'virtual', which wb satisfied by Evdev or equivalent.
> This would avoid the problem when busy users miss the warning notice
> (see a current users' thread).
>
> Perhaps this would in turn need an extension of the 'virtual' concept,
> to require rebuilding of the relevant pkg to satisfy the main emerge.
> There is another thread today re 'revdep-rebuild' + Python + Perl,
> which seems to cover a bit of the same ground.
>
> Thanks as always to the devs for their conscientious unpaid efforts.
>
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portage 2.2 has a nice set for that called @x11-module-rebuild :)

Alex | wired