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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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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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Thanks for your input. |
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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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FYI, the video cards stuff makes use of USE_EXPAND. This means that we |
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don't use has/hasq, we do 'use video_cards_ati'. |
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Thanks, |
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Donine |
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