Bug 309435

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-server: make xineramaproto optional dependency
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matt Turner <mattst88>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2010-03-15 03:36:24 UTC

Xinerama is totally optional in the X server, and is not used by many applications. Add a USE flag for it in the X server.

The catch is that for all ebuilds depending on libXinerama, they'll have to depend on xorg-server with USE=xinerama, but this is really more correct and offers more flexibility.

Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-15 11:47:14 UTC

While I'm all for optional Xinerama support in client applications, I think we'll keep it enabled in the server until it's made irrelevant. For now server-side Xinerama (panoramix) is still used by nvidia-drivers, for example.

As for client apps, none of them depend on the server, only on libX11 (or libxcb).

Thanks