321285 – kde-misc/synaptiks needs x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics

Bug 321285 - kde-misc/synaptiks needs x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics

Summary: kde-misc/synaptiks needs x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team

URL:	http://synaptiks.lunaryorn.de/build_a...
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Reported:	2010-05-24 10:10 UTC by Nico Schlömer
Modified:	2010-06-25 12:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Nico Schlömer 2010-05-24 10:10:37 UTC

Hi,

kde-misc/synaptiks compiles fine in anycase, but at runtime needs the x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics driver loaded. Isn't that what RDEPEND was made for?

I'm not sure about the requirements with hal, maybe one has to force x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics[hal] and even x11-base/xorg-server[hal].

Cheers,
Nico

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-24 10:41:49 UTC

You have misconfigured /etc/make.conf if synaptics is missing from INPUT_DEVICES="" and xf86-input-synaptics is not installed. 
I left the RDEPEND out in purpose because even if you pull in the depend, there's no way to force you to setup your X.org at runtime to load the drivers.
In other words, it's up to the user to install and load the drivers he needs.

That said, I don't maintain the package anymore, so moving to maintainers ->