There's no requirement to recompile xfree unless you _need_ a feature of
the newer synaptics driver. Yes it is nice to have the latest version,
but there's no purpose unless you require a fix in it.
The feature I need is for it to work with 2.6.0-test8 which .13 doesn't. I wasn't sure if .14 did, but I'm building it now to test.
I'm glad you can appreciate my counterargument.
Always. It's silly to debate (or argue, or whatever) and not listen. That's like fighting with a goldfish - fun, but it never gets you anywhere.
There is nearly zero maintenance cost within the xfree ebuild for the synaptics driver (simply change the driver version and go), and similar holds true for the ebuild. I expect any extra maintenance caused between 13 October (when I committed synaptics) and whenever 4.3.99.15 is released to be negligible.
What I meant by easier to maintain is simply remembering to bump the version number in the SYNDRV="xx" line (or whatever the variable is called).
There is also the fact that xfree 4.3.99.* is still masked so I didn't think releasing a new version of the ebuild would be a big deal as it is uber-unstable.
In actuality, it is not uber-unstable. I've been running 4.3.99.x for a fair while and have yet to encounter a crash that is 4.3.99.x-specific. It's masked by virtue of being a development series.
I didn't mean unstable as in code, but in name. I was assuming that many gentoo-ers (at least the ones that frequent freenode's #gentoo) do not unmask hard-masked items like the .99 series of xfree86.
It's rather subjective, and as someone who has to use the combination in question (xfree 4.3.99.x, synaptics, and the 2.6 kernel series (due to an IGP320M chipset)), it would be easier to have the xfree ebuild use the synaptics ebuild rather than pull it in itself.
You don't need to use 2.6 for IGP chipsets. See the 2.4 patches: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314
The 2.4 patches never worked on this laptop, so in fact, I do. (HP 4420, ATI Radeon Mobility, AMD 2200M)
It's not that big of a deal, really. I can do it and just use it in PORTAGE_OVERLAY if it's not something that gentoo is interested in.
This isn't Gentoo, this is me. You're welcome to grab the 4.3.99.14-r1
ebuild from my overlay if you choose [1], but I don't consider it
appropriate for committing. Emerge it with `INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics"
emerge xfree` or preferably set INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf.
1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/
By "gentoo" I meant the maintainer of the ebuild and by maintainer of the ebuild, I meant you. Sorry for the confusion.
Not a big deal either way. Thanks, in any event.
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