On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM, David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] > Cairo XCB: > > >I have seen messages similar to these: > > > > * Messages for package x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10: > > > > * You have enabled the Cairo XCB backend which is used only by > > * a select few apps. The Cairo XCB backend is presently > > * un-maintained and needs a lot of work to get it caught up > > * to the Xrender and Xlib backends, which are the backends used > > * by most applications. See: > > * http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html > [snip] > >which means that it's the default. What should I do with it, wait > >until the default profile gets rid of it, or do something different? > > My take is that the warning is against writing new applications that > might use the XCB back-end. Unless you are writing expressly X Window > (i.e. low level) applications, just ignore it. > -- > Regards, > > Dave [RLU #314465] > ====================================================================== > dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) > ====================================================================== > I put -xcb in the USE variable of /etc/make.conf, and did an emerge -aDNvu. Everything works, and cairo no longer complains. Ignoring it would probably have worked for me too, but it would have left me worrying. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
