On Monday 16 October 2006 16:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2006 18:10, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Alan, but the question I meant to ask is: why only the > > xorg-server takes account of these flags, while the xorg-x11 doesn't? > > xorg-x11 is a meta package. It's purpose is to merge various x11 > packages as dependencies and it doesn't do any merging on it's own. > > Looking into the ebuilds, xorg-x11 only mentions VIDEO_CARDS and > INPUT_DEVICES once in pkg_postinst() in an einfo saying you should now > set these variables (presumably so that xorg-server can do the right > thing when it's merged). [snip] > So the variable is only used by the ebuild that actually does the > merging. [snip] > But the output you are getting is correct per my current understanding > of portage
Thank you for the explanation. I got an error with the xf86-drivers-ati emerge that followed my xorg emerges today, but will start thread for that. -- Regards, Mick
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