Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary

[William Kenworthy]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote:
> Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy:
> > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
> >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote:
> >>> I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have
> >>> an ... anomaly!
> >>>
> >>> It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and
> >>> sabayon - why?  I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg
> >>> so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is
> >>> it?
> >>>
> >>> How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find
> >>> anything so far.
> >>
> >> euse -I kdrive
> >>
> >> will show which packages on your system are using this flag.
> >>
> >
> > Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be
> > needed that I want:
> >
> >> >From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to
> > require xorg-server to be built with kdrive.  So even though this system
> > is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ...
> >
> > COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.4
> >     >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0
> >     >=dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3
> >     >=dev-python/pygobject-2.15
> >     x11-libs/pango
> >     dev-python/python-ldap
> >     x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive]"
> >
> >
> > It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so
> > guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome
> > here as well - seems to work ok.
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
> >
> You need kdrive for Xephyr!
>

Perhaps, but its not installed and doesnt even have an ebuild that I can
see.

BillK