1. Packages rather depend on setting X in imlib2: $ equery d imlib2 * These packages depend on imlib2: media-gfx/feh-2.27 (media-libs/imlib2[X]) media-gfx/qiv-2.3.2 (media-libs/imlib2[X]) www-client/w3m-0.5.3_p20180125 (imlib ? media-libs/imlib2[X?]) 2. "Imlib has support for the MIT-SHM extension via shared images to speed up rendering." - if it works now, why shouldn't we use it by default? :-)
(In reply to Jan Psota from comment #0) > 1. Packages rather depend on setting X in imlib2: > $ equery d imlib2 > * These packages depend on imlib2: > media-gfx/feh-2.27 (media-libs/imlib2[X]) > media-gfx/qiv-2.3.2 (media-libs/imlib2[X]) > www-client/w3m-0.5.3_p20180125 (imlib ? media-libs/imlib2[X?]) There are many, many many more packages in the tree that don't require imlib2[X]. However looks like majority does. I believe imlib2 still works in headless systems that probably have set -X in their make.conf. If 'shm' was enabled by default, it would stop the update requiring 'X' to be set, or 'shm' to be unset for this package. I do agree 'shm' is a bit hidden now, and probably no one has it enabled. > > 2. "Imlib has support for the MIT-SHM extension via shared images to speed > up rendering." - if it works now, why shouldn't we use it by default? :-) It still has some issues currently, https://phab.enlightenment.org/T7173#121029 but yes it's a nice feature that you probably want enabled if you have X. I'm not sure how to achieve this without making things "problematic" for people with -X by default, since the update would stop here, asking them to modify their package.use for this package. However I can only recommend 'shm' to be used when next xorg is released due to issues linked above, so gonna track this bug (and keep it open) until then. I think changing IUSE="+shm +X" should be done, since upstream enables these flags by default too.
Thanks! I understood. I was in doubt, too - maybe in next EAPI there will be capability to automatically enable some use-flag if some other is set. But EAPI is a little complicated now, and rather should not be more.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=09b0e06d6fdb63a57fd40bfe321ecf3fb794f6e1 commit 09b0e06d6fdb63a57fd40bfe321ecf3fb794f6e1 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2018-08-17 08:58:52 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-08-23 12:32:02 +0000 media-libs/imlib2: enable 'shm' and 'X' by default in 1.5.1-r1 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/661864 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9596 Package-Manager: Portage[mgorny]-2.3.43.3 media-libs/imlib2/imlib2-1.5.1-r1.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
