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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:51:38
Message-Id: 200908051551.27910.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags by pk
1 pk writes:
2
3 > xxxxx ~ # emerge --with-bdeps y -DupN world
4 >
5 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
6 >
7 > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 VIDEO_CARDS="(-fglrx%*)"
9 > [ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.19 USE="(-midi%*)"
10 > [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.1.11-r5 [3.1.11-r4]
11 > [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.19 USE="-midi*"
12 > [ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.19-r2 USE="(-midi%*)"
13 > [ebuild R ] media-sound/audacity-1.3.7 USE="-midi*"
14 >
15 > Q1. Does anyone know why the ebuild for xorg-server no longer have the
16 > fglrx flag (nvidia is present) available?
17
18 No. I noticed this yesterday, and skipped re-compiling of xorg-server, just
19 in case.
20 Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re-
21 compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL never
22 worked really well here.
23
24 > Q2. Does anyone know why midi USE flag is no longer used?
25
26 There is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272659 , although it does
27 not really explain why midi is being dropped from ALSA.
28
29 Wonko

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