317951 – xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.2-r2: dependency on xorg-server-1.8 is unnecessary.

Bug 317951 - xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.2-r2: dependency on xorg-server-1.8 is unnecessary.

Summary: xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.2-r2: dependency on xorg-server-1.8 is unnecessary.

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2010-04-30 22:28 UTC by Nick Bowler
Modified:	2011-06-06 21:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Nick Bowler 2010-04-30 22:28:06 UTC

The -r2 bump of xf86-input-synaptics added the installation of an xorg.conf.d file (good).  It also bumped the version dependency of xorg-server from 1.6 to 1.8 (bad).

Since files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d are completely ignored by older servers, installing this file is harmless and the dependency did not need to be bumped.
Therefore, the only thing this dependency does is make the downgrade path arbitrarily harder for no good reason: the driver works perfectly fine with older servers.

Comment 1 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2011-03-09 22:57:54 UTC

Both (synaptics 1.2 and xorg 1.8) no longer exist is the tree. Please close this bug.

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-06-06 21:42:09 UTC

marking as OBSOLETE.