Created attachment 428846 [details] Ebuild for light-9999 Hi! Please find attached light-9999.ebuild. "Light" is a program to control backlight controllers under GNU/Linux, it is the successor of lightscript, which was a bash script with the same purpose, and tries to maintain the same functionality. It usually works where other software has been proven to be unusable or problematic, thanks to how it operates internally and to the fact that it does not rely on xorg. It can automatically figure out the best controller to use, making full use of underlying hardware drivers. The homepage for the same is http://haikarainen.github.io/light/ Pallav
It looks like this will work for my XPS 9560 with i3; if it does I will commit & maintain this. Note however that I am not a fan of 9999/git ebuilds as they are not idempotent/supportable. Not a problem, as there are numbered releases of this package.
Created attachment 586124 [details] light-1.2.ebuild This is a repoman-clean EAPI=7 ebuild.
This is in the portage tree now. Thank you for your contribution to Gentoo Linux, and apologies for the amount of time it took before it was actioned.
This was in the portage tree already as dev-libs/light https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-libs/light
Then I suppose we best compare which ebuild is best and remove the duplicate? Why don't developers update bugs when they add packages?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=7f324bfd6eaa5d06b342d93fe301a5261a34fbd8 commit 7f324bfd6eaa5d06b342d93fe301a5261a34fbd8 Author: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-08-09 08:34:30 +0000 Commit: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-08-09 08:35:16 +0000 Remove duplicate package sys-apps/light as dev-libs/light already in tree. Unfortunately a bug report requesting the addition was left open, causing confusion and duplication of effort. Suggested-By: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> Signed-Off-By: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/578116 sys-apps/light/Manifest | 1 - sys-apps/light/light-1.2.ebuild | 26 -------------------------- sys-apps/light/metadata.xml | 8 -------- 3 files changed, 35 deletions(-)
