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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:49, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > The xfree ebuild itself currently builds the synaptics driver, version |
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> > 0.11.8 at present. You need to rebuild xfree to get a new version of the |
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> > synaptics driver at present, since not until the latest synaptics |
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> > version was it possible to build externally. Future revisions of xfree |
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> > will have synaptics build externally (4.3.0-r4, 4.3.99.15). |
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> Right, taht's what I was saying. |
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> |
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> > grep ^SYN_VER /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild to see which |
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> > version you'll get at any given time. |
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> > |
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> > I already have an ebuild ready for 4.3.99.15 that does this the way it |
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> > will be done, but as 4.3.99.15 isn't out yet I can't commit it. =) |
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> I should have stated I'm running 4.3.99.13 already. My question was if |
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> someone was already working on an ebuild that built the driver |
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> externally (with the synaptics ebuild). Is there a reason why this |
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> wasn't released (with teh external driver build) as a -r1 release to |
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> 4.3.99.14? |
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The very small minority of people it would affect isn't worth having the |
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majority of people getting confused and thinking they need to recompile |
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4.3.99.14. It works as is anyway, so what's the point? |
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