Bug 320475

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.1 ebuild improvements
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InOverlay, InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xorg-server 1.8.1 ebuild improvements

Description Andrew Brouwers 2010-05-18 23:09:23 UTC

Experimenting with the new x-server on my laptop, I came across 2 items that I found strange.

First, the xorg.conf is plopped into /etc/X11 yet, while this is mostly unwanted.  Perhaps we can relocate it to to /usr/share/doc ?  I'm not sure people use it much anymore, but keeping it around for another cycle might not hurt.

Second, I'm not sure if the dependency on "udev[extras]" is actually required.  First, --enable-config-udev is definitely still valid without gudev present.  What's more, without udev[extas], I can run 'startx' without my USB mouse plugged in, wait for the server to come up, plug my USB mouse in, and see messages in my Xorg.0.log like:

[    94.674] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel" (type: MOUSE)
[    94.674] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel (/dev/input/mouse2)

And the mouse works great.  So, I really think hotplugging works via. udev, without gudev installed from udev[extras].

Attached is a trivial patch to address both minor issues to the ebuild. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Brouwers 2010-05-18 23:09:50 UTC

Created attachment 232047 [details, diff]
xorg-server 1.8.1 ebuild improvements

Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-19 07:54:20 UTC

Fixed in both main tree and overlay