Bug 317951

Summary:	xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.2-r2: dependency on xorg-server-1.8 is unnecessary.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Bowler <nbowler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) <eva>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	trivial	CC:	chainsaw, egore
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nick Bowler 2010-04-30 22:28:06 UTC

The -r2 bump of xf86-input-synaptics added the installation of an xorg.conf.d file (good).  It also bumped the version dependency of xorg-server from 1.6 to 1.8 (bad).

Since files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d are completely ignored by older servers, installing this file is harmless and the dependency did not need to be bumped.
Therefore, the only thing this dependency does is make the downgrade path arbitrarily harder for no good reason: the driver works perfectly fine with older servers.

Comment 1 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2011-03-09 22:57:54 UTC

Both (synaptics 1.2 and xorg 1.8) no longer exist is the tree. Please close this bug.

Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-06-06 21:42:09 UTC

marking as OBSOLETE.