Re: [Cooker] Modular X.org

[Gustavo Pichorim Boiko]

Em Terça 18 Abril 2006 09:28, Thierry Vignaud escreveu:
> 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:

Thanks for testing that.

> 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)

Yes, this is not an easy task. There are many packages that still need some 
tags to 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)

This one I was not aware of. Thanks for reporting. I will take a look at the 
mesa package to see what is wrong there.

> eg:
> - lack of X11-devel provides (and thus update won't work w/o manual
>   intervention)

Yes, I'm adding that to the x11-devel metapackage.

> - 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, ...
> - ...

Yes, those dependencies will be fixed.

Thanks a lot for reporting that.

Cheers
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Gustavo Pichorim Boiko
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