On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:08, Spundun Bhatt wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:54, spundun wrote:
> Okkey, understood. Now later in this mail you are going to say that
> its a snapshot off the recent xserver from fd.o, then how is it in
> sync with XFree.org? what do you mean by "in sync with"?

The kdrive ebuild _in portage_ uses xfree86 sources.

The xserver things _on my overlay_ use freedesktop.org.

<snip>
> I think what I heard was that you could just place the xserver binary
> alongside XFree setup and be able to use it. I really just heard it, I
> dont understand how its supposed to work, so I guess I will take your
> word for it that its not going to work.

The issue here is our package management system. Yes you can install it
alongside xfree, assuming you installed the libs to /usr/local so they
don't overwrite xfree's. This is something we (meaning Gentoo) will not
do, because /usr/local is not a place a package management system should
put things. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, modifying the ebuilds
to use prefixes of /usr/local instead of /usr would solve this, but my
versions of the ebuilds will remain fit for inclusion in Portage.

<snip more stuff>
> Ohh and btw, if you are reworking them, you might want to change the
> module name to xserver?

Already was. The "kdrive" on my overlay is a modification of that in
portage, reflecting usage of imake and therefore xfree86 sources.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay/x11-base/xserver/

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