Bug 217276 – xdirectfb should depend to xinit

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Morgan GERMAIN 2008-04-11 11:53:19 UTC]

Every howto I have found that show how to build xdirectfb supposes that you are searching for an alternative to Xorg that you already have installed (and so, xinit is already installed in such cases)

Installing xdirectfb should result in installing xinit

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gentoo-2008.0-beta1
2. emerge --sync && emerge --update --deep --newuse world
3. emerge xdirectfb

Actual Results:  
We cannot launch /usr/X11R6/bin/startxdfb


It is the only alternative to xorg-x11 and for low memory targets, xdirectfb should be a feature

[Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2008-04-12 00:09:24 UTC]

Dear X11 team, I realize you aren't listed as a maintainer, so please re-assign to m-w if you aren't interested in this. However, if you are, it might be a good idea to update metadata.xml.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-13 06:16:28 UTC]

Actually, this is probably going to get masked and removed. It's insanely old. If you need low-memory, use xorg-server with USE="minimal kdrive -xorg"

[Comment 3 Morgan GERMAIN 2008-06-27 09:05:59 UTC]

I don't need low-memory, but I need an alternative to Xorg

[Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-11-19 15:20:06 UTC]

removed from tree -> WONTFIX