On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:54, spundun wrote: > Hi > My question is why is there a module called kdrive in gentoo? As far as > I know, the xserver Keith Packard is working on is called xserver now > and is hosted on freedesktop.org. I just want to know if this is in sync > with that or not, and also if there is any chance of a cvs ebuild being > available.
Thanks for asking. I'm glad to hear of interest in this. It's currently in sync with www.xfree86.org, plus some patches to fix bugs. It's there so users have some options to use a small X server. I'm well aware of the development on freedesktop.org, and I'm also aware that it's quite active. That in itself raises questions whether it should be in portage before they've issued a semi-official release. It suggests that they do not believe it is stable enough for a release. However, I have a suspicion such a thing may not be far off. The other problem I've seen is that we should install all of the libraries xserver requires to /usr/X11R6/, which would overwrite xfree's files. (When compiling xserver/xlibs by hand, one typically installs to /usr/local/.) So xserver/kdrive will need to change to an exclusive build, instead of something that can be installed alongside xfree. I have ebuilds for most of the required things already (all of them as of last time I build xserver, two weeks ago), available on dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/. Distfiles are available in the same place.
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