> On Jun 1, 2018, at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>
> x11@ is currently assigned or cc'd on 176 bugs. This number is down from
> 222 on April 1st and more than 412 in February 2015 (I reported this on
> #gentoo-desktop after closing out a bunch of bugs that day).
Awesome!
>
>
> == Fix x11-base/xorg-server suid/systemd situation ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/635102
>
> Looks like these bugs are sorted out. There are a few issues in
> conjunction with Mesa 18.x, so I'm going to hold off on unmasking
> xorg-server-1.20 until those are sorted. I think fixes are at least in
> progress for all of those, so I expect we're in good shape and will have
> unmasked 1.20 by next month.
>
> == Convert media-libs/mesa ebuild to build with Meson ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/652762
>
> Lots of progress. floppym made the necessary changes to meson.eclass to
> let Mesa's build system use a different *-llvm-config per-ABI by always
> using a cross file. That lets multilib builds work.
>
> There are a couple of (hopefully minor) configuration options missing
> from Mesa's meson.build, so I'm targeting next month for the transition
> of mesa-.ebuild to Meson. I plan to ship Mesa 18.2 build with Meson.
>
> == Update packages to depend on x11-base/xorg-proto ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/656250
>
> Arfrever continued transitioning whole categories at a time! Big thanks
> to him!
>
> Apr 1May 7 Jun 1
> Packages depending on x11-proto/*: 530 -> 432 -> 35 [1]
> ebuilds depending on x11-proto/*: 1908 -> 1503 -> 59 [2]
>
> Just some games-*/* and kde-frameworks/* packages remain to be updated.
>
> == media-libs/vulkan-* split packages ==
> Nick (sarnex) had lots of fun this month splitting packages out of
> media-libs/vulkan-loader:
>
>media-libs/vulkan-layers
>media-libs/vulkan-toolsmedia-libs/vulkan-headers
>
> Upstream continues to churn things and doesn't seem to have a good grasp
> of how Linux distributions operate. Nick's done a good job keeping on
> top of upstream changes.
>
> == Tree cleaning ==
> Removed:
>x11-proto/printproto
>x11-libs/libXp
>x11-libs/xpyb
> Given Last Rites:
>x11-libs/libXfont
>app-i18n/fbiterm (reverse dependency of libXfont)
>
> == Add and require glvnd ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/606924
> https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd
>
> Package added under package.mask:
>
># New package. Needs to interact with media-libs/mesa and
># x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. Work in progress.
>media-libs/libglvnd
>
> nvidia-drivers-375 and newer support glvnd, so I'll have to figure out
> how to make things work. I guess we'll have to keep eselect-opengl for
> older nvidia-drivers, which means updating it to support glvnd (instead
> of removing it)
>
> == Drop app-eselect/eselect-mesa ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/576334
>
> Removed from mesa-.ebuild and mesa-18.1.0-r1.ebuild. Once older
> versions are gone from the tree we can give eselect-mesa last rites.
>
> Without eselect-mesa, the Gallium i915 and swrast drivers are installed
> if USE=gallium; otherwise the classic versions are installed. I suspect
> this is good enough.
>
> == Fix/Remove OpenCL ==
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/546320
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/647330
>
> No progress.
>
> == Clean out x11 overlay ==
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/x11.git/
>
> No progress.
>
> [1] git grep x11-proto | cut -d '/' -f -2 | grep -vE
> 'xorg-proto|metadata|profiles' | sort -u | wc -l
> [2] git grep x11-proto | grep -vE 'xorg-proto|metadata|profiles' | wc -l
