Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. euse -I kdrive will show which packages on your system are using this flag. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. euse -I kdrive will show which packages on your system are using this flag. Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be needed that I want: From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to require xorg-server to be built with kdrive. So even though this system is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ... COMMON_DEPEND==dev-lang/python-2.4 =x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0 =dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3 =dev-python/pygobject-2.15 x11-libs/pango dev-python/python-ldap x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive] It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome here as well - seems to work ok. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. euse -I kdrive will show which packages on your system are using this flag. Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be needed that I want: From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to require xorg-server to be built with kdrive. So even though this system is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ... COMMON_DEPEND==dev-lang/python-2.4 =x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0 =dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3 =dev-python/pygobject-2.15 x11-libs/pango dev-python/python-ldap x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive] It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome here as well - seems to work ok. BillK You need kdrive for Xephyr!
Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 13:03 +0200, ich bins wrote: Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. euse -I kdrive will show which packages on your system are using this flag. Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be needed that I want: From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to require xorg-server to be built with kdrive. So even though this system is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ... COMMON_DEPEND==dev-lang/python-2.4 =x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0 =dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3 =dev-python/pygobject-2.15 x11-libs/pango dev-python/python-ldap x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive] It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome here as well - seems to work ok. BillK You need kdrive for Xephyr! Perhaps, but its not installed and doesnt even have an ebuild that I can see. BillK
[gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
