Somewhere in this year i tried to replace xbacklight with acpilight. Works well, but just until you try to do something in portage. acpilight is more modern xbacklight alternative, using acpi, yet with xbacklight wrapper for compatibility. In active development (live ebuild would be well-time).
Please consider adding sys-power/acpilight as an alternative to xbacklight. If you feel it is warranted, we could make a virtual. Though, as of now, only xorg-x11 and x11-wm/lumina depend on x11-apps/xbacklight
I meaned something lighter, like... PROVIDE=x11-apps/xbacklight Though i right now found this feature deprecated :/
(In reply to Nikita Zlobin from comment #2) > I meaned something lighter, like... > PROVIDE=x11-apps/xbacklight > > Though i right now found this feature deprecated :/ Not sure what you mean by PROVIDE= This is no such thing allowed in the PMS spec.
PROVIDE= are old-style virtuals and used to be part of EAPI 0, but have been retroactively dropped from PMS. Anyway, the xorg-x11 package is only intended to pull in a complete set of X.org packages. Install sys-power/acpilight separately if you need it.
