On Samstag 24 Juli 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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.
why taking out xkb just because some minor, unimportant piece of ... is broken?
