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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:43:32 -0700, |
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Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is requiring everyone to unmerge drivers a worse solution than |
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> breaking some people who emerged drivers directly? |
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Depends how many people are on each side i guess. But here, i would |
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expect really very few people to be on the "broken drivers" side. |
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To fall there, they should have: |
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- set $VIDEO_CARDS to some valid value, but wich doesn't include the |
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said drivers. I assume most people tend to either set it to the right |
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values for their hardware, or, if they don't care / don't understand |
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what it is, leave it unset (which is fine too since it defaults to |
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installing all drivers). |
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- asked explicitly an update of the X server, but not a world update. |
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I can speak only for myself, but that's usually something i do with a |
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good reason, when i'm aware of some change i want to immediatly apply, |
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so it's particularly unlikely that it ends with bad surprise. (Or maybe |
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they could have done a world update but installed their driver with |
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--oneshot, but again, why?) |
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- ignored the shiny VIDEO_CARDS="-yourdriver" in -p output before the |
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actual update. This one is just like if an ebuild makes optionnal a |
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feature which used to be default; it can happen that one don't see the |
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change in -p output and thus lose the feature, but again, it's |
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unlikely, and he can't really complain... |
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So imho, that's a lot of unlikely conditions one should join to end |
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with broken drivers, and i don't think you should care too much about |
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it. |
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The ati --> {mach64,radeon,r128} change may make some of the above more |
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likely to happen though: for instance, i have VIDEO_CARDS="ati dummy" |
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on my laptop, and with 'ati' deprecation, only 'dummy' would get |
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updated. But: |
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- at the opposite of the xorg-x11 meta ebuild, a pkg_setup check |
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xorg-server ("if hasq ati $VIDEO_CARDS; then eerror ...") makes sense, |
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since it would die at the right time, before the drivers updates. |
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- it's not really specific to this PDEPEND thing and driver ABI change |
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anyway; one may also lose Mesa support for his ATI card if he has |
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other valid drivers listed. Again, "emerge -p" is our friend, and |
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there is not much to do for people who don't use it. |
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TGL. |
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