On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote: > >> On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: > >>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > >>>> On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: > >>>>> Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag. > >>>> > >>>> Me or Alan? > >>> > >>> OP > >>> > >>> As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you > >>> temporarily disable xinerama, then the build should proceed. Then if > >>> you need xinerama, enable the USE flag and build again. > >> > >> I don't have the xinerama use flag set anywhere...I don't know what it > >> is, I don't want it, and I hopefully don't need it. > >> > >> I did put -xinerama in my use flag variable and try again, we'll see how > >> that works...btw, I have switched to xorg-server-1.7.1, since I don't > >> want to go through upgrading more than I need to. > > > > libXinerama and xineramaproto are hard-DEPENDS on quite a few things: > > > > $ equery depends libXinerama > > * Searching for libXinerama ... > > app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 (x11-libs/libXinerama) > > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-libs/libXinerama) > > > > > > $ equery depends xineramaproto > > * Searching for xineramaproto ... > > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-proto/xineramaproto) > > x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.3) > > x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2) > > I'm really sorry for my noobishness, but could you explain exectly what > "proto" means in this context and how it applies to me?
Xorg used to be one ginormous complicated package. It is now a ginormous complicated collection of small packages, each one simple. This is supposed to make someone's life easier. In reality it moves the complexity from point A to point B, where you still have to deal with it :-) The -proto packages are the protocol header files. They tell the compiler how to build other packages that use those protocols. They are separate because Ubuntu users don't need them - they don't compile stuff. You do, so you need them, and the Xorg ebuilds pull them in. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
