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