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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 needs testers
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:28:01
Message-Id: 1100809738.27712.5.camel@helen.science.oregonstate.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 needs testers by Joseph Booker
1 On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:31, Joseph Booker wrote:
2 > On Thu, November 18, 2004 11:08 am, Donnie Berkholz said:
3 > > 1. No fonts. None. Zero. This means X always dies with "Can't find font
4 > > fixed" unless you provide your own. This could potentially be changed if
5 > > I find a way to just build the "misc" fonts.
6 >
7 > 'essentialfonts' USE flag, on by default
8
9 No point in a USE flag for something that doesn't work when it's off.
10
11 > > 4. Nothing in /usr/share/doc
12 >
13 > 'doc'
14
15 That's already being used for the huge number of docs that aren't
16 installed by default.
17
18 > How about a VIDEO_DRIVERS enviroment var thats set in make.conf or command
19 > line, that let the ebuild checks for - if its something like 'trident fb
20 > i810', then it builds those, if its not set or empty, then it builds
21 > everything. i think your able to specify alsa drivers in some ebuild that
22 > way
23
24 There's a bug around for this. It takes a while to implement though,
25 because there's a different driver selection for every arch.
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