Re: [Cooker] Modular X.org

[Thierry Vignaud]

Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <boiko@mandriva.com> writes:

> Finally, working on xorg packages is a lot of work, so anyone willing to
> help is more than welcome. I'd like to thank Colin Guthrie, Anssi Hannula
> and Christiaan Welvaart for the effort put in the wiki page (which I will
> be updating soon), and also a special thank to Christiaan Welvaart for his
> comments and suggestions on the xorg packaging.
> 
> 
> The packages are available at:
> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/~boiko/xorg7/noarch
> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/~boiko/xorg7/i586

i've tested them at home. here's my 2 cents:

there're 3 global problems:
- xkbcomp doesn't work and thus keyboard config doesn't work (either
  xorg.conf settings or manual setxkbmap) :-(
- lacks of provides and obsolete tags (update won't work)
- not everything (i'm talking about new packages, not mandriva ones)
  aren't aware of the new layout.
  eg even DRI won't work by default: for 3D to work, one has to set up
  the following link:
  "ln -s /usr/lib/dri /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri"
  (else mesa doesn't redirect to direct rendering path)

eg:
- lack of X11-devel provides (and thus update won't work w/o manual
  intervention)
- xfs lacks a requires on x11-font-encodings
- xfs also lacks the "fixed" font by default but that's an installer
  issue (which currently installs xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts in order to
  fix this) but i don't known which package provide the "fixed" font
- xauth should obsolete x11-xorg-xauth for updates
- and the like: xfs vs x11-xorg-xfs, ...
- ...