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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:18, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:49, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > > I am guessing here; I don't know why it's hard masked. I suggest you look |
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> > > at the ChangeLog and address the question to spyderous. |
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> > I don't see much in the ChangeLog to give any hints. The listing in |
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> > package.mask is: |
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> > # <seemant@g.o> 21 May, 2003 |
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> > # Masked while it's still under development. I need revision control on |
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> > the |
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> > # thing, which is why it's in portage at all. Do NOT install this. |
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> > # 30 May, 2003 : Seems that xterm is in its own separate package as |
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> > well, so |
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> > # taking that out of -r3. Added utempter, (dep for xterm to not install |
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> > # suid) |
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> > =x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6 |
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> Those notes are about a year old, and xfree-4.3.0-r6 needs neither a |
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> separate xterm nor utempter. |
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Apparently you haven't emerged it lately. =) |
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> On the other hand, xorg-x11 does need those |
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> packages. I think that by xfree-4.3.0-r5, xfree-4.3.0-r5,-r6 are pretty |
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> much the same except for the font paths. But again, don't take my word |
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> for it. :) |
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There are lots of updates. Check a 13 Apr 2004 changelog entry and |
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another entry 14 Mar 2004 for some major details. |
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> > I guess I would just like to see us using common font locations across |
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> > our 2 major X builds. |
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> No one would dispute that. And so far as I can tell, the way of the |
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> future for this is /usr/share/... |
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> Try lobbying spyderous et. al. to shake loose -r6? (I expect (or hope) |
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> that xfree is not much longer with us, but that's because xorg-x11 seems |
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> cleaner on sparc, and that's where I live.) |
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Basically what's holding it up is a new opengl-update with a |
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--get-implementation feature and a couple other fixes. I have it written |
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but I'm adding a couple more little things to it, like fixing libtool |
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archives that link to /usr/lib/opengl/xfree so xorg-x11/xfree switches |
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are more seamless. |
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I'm not really pushing it very hard. I don't even expect all arches to |
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get it working, since we're moving over toward xorg-x11, which I've been |
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spending much of my X time working with. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Gentoo Linux |
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