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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/*
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:37:48
Message-Id: CAEdQ38F7OQm4LCfnq-4QDXtu+g1Z9PqTMZUFP-TKB8EHQptGCg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/* by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > W dniu pią, 24.11.2017 o godzinie 18∶02 -0800, użytkownik Matt Turner
3 > napisał:
4 >> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Richard Bradfield <bradfier@×××××.me> wrote:
5 >> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
6 >> > >
7 >> > > Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver
8 >> > > versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the
9 >> > > upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between
10 >> > > zero and one person to use.
11 >> > > ...
12 >> > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting
13 >> >
14 >> >
15 >> > I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for
16 >> > this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for
17 >> > which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with
18 >> > xf86-video-modesetting.
19 >>
20 >> You must not have updated in quite a while if it's still installed on
21 >> your system. The driver has been included in the xserver since 1.17
22 >> (with the appropriate blocker).
23 >>
24 >> The driver's not going away, just the separate package :)
25 >
26 > You should probably update the p.mask message to make that clear.
27 > Possibly maybe even split this driver (and any other that is not
28 > necessary) to a separate mask.
29
30 Will do. I didn't expect there was anyone with it still installed on
31 their system, since it hasn't been separately installable since I
32 think 1.17 has been stable since before the transition to git :)