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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kdrive use flag quandary
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 20:11:39
Message-Id: hspjf5$4ug$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary by William Kenworthy
1 On 05/16/2010 04:14 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote:
3 >> Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy:
4 >>> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
5 >>>> On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote:
6 >>>>> I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have
7 >>>>> an ... anomaly!
8 >>>>>
9 >>>>> It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and
10 >>>>> sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg
11 >>>>> so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is
12 >>>>> it?
13 >>>>>
14 >>>>> How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find
15 >>>>> anything so far.
16 >>>>
17 >>>> euse -I kdrive
18 >>>>
19 >>>> will show which packages on your system are using this flag.
20 >>>>
21 >>>
22 >>> Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be
23 >>> needed that I want:
24 >>>
25 >>>> > From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to
26 >>> require xorg-server to be built with kdrive. So even though this system
27 >>> is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ...
28 >>>
29 >>> COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.4
30 >>> >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0
31 >>> >=dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3
32 >>> >=dev-python/pygobject-2.15
33 >>> x11-libs/pango
34 >>> dev-python/python-ldap
35 >>> x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive]"
36 >>>
37 >>>
38 >>> It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so
39 >>> guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome
40 >>> here as well - seems to work ok.
41 >>>
42 >>> BillK
43 >>>
44 >>>
45 >>>
46 >> You need kdrive for Xephyr!
47 >>
48 >
49 > Perhaps, but its not installed and doesnt even have an ebuild that I can
50 > see.
51
52 Xephyr is a driver installed by xorg-server-1.8 on my ~amd64 machine, but
53 not on my x86 machine with xorg-server-1.7.6. Which version are you trying
54 to install?