Richard Bradfield wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: >> Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver >> versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the >> upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between >> zero and one person to use. >> ... >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting > > I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for > this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for > which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with > xf86-video-modesetting. > > Obviously not asking you to keep putting in effort just for me, so what > are my next steps if this package is masked and I later need to update? >
Seems that "one" just doubled. root@fireball / # equery list x11-drivers/xf86* * Searching for xf86* in x11-drivers ... [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.5:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.4:0 root@fireball / # equery d x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa * These packages depend on x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev: kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.11.3 (mouse ? x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev) x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (input_devices_evdev ? x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev) * These packages depend on x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa: x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (video_cards_vesa ? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa) root@fireball / # What will change without it, not sure. :/ Dale :-) :-)
