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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Ancient x11-drivers/*
From:       Matt Turner <mattst88 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2017-11-25 20:37:17
Message-ID: CAEdQ38F7OQm4LCfnq-4QDXtu+g1Z9PqTMZUFP-TKB8EHQptGCg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> W dniu pią, 24.11.2017 o godzinie 18∶02 -0800, użytkownik Matt Turner
> napisał:
>> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Richard Bradfield <bradfier@fstab.me> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver
>> > > versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the
>> > > upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between
>> > > zero and one person to use.
>> > > ...
>> > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting
>> >
>> >
>> > I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for
>> > this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for
>> > which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with
>> > xf86-video-modesetting.
>>
>> You must not have updated in quite a while if it's still installed on
>> your system. The driver has been included in the xserver since 1.17
>> (with the appropriate blocker).
>>
>> The driver's not going away, just the separate package :)
>
> You should probably update the p.mask message to make that clear.
> Possibly maybe even split this driver (and any other that is not
> necessary) to a separate mask.

Will do. I didn't expect there was anyone with it still installed on
their system, since it hasn't been separately installable since I
think 1.17 has been stable since before the transition to git :)

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