Summary: | x11-base/xorg-server Init script for Xvfb, the virtual framebuffer X server | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Christian Affolter <c.affolter> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bertrand |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
/etc/init.d/xvfb
/etc/conf.d/xvfb |
Description
Christian Affolter
2013-10-30 13:58:13 UTC
Created attachment 362298 [details]
/etc/init.d/xvfb
Created attachment 362300 [details]
/etc/conf.d/xvfb
I am not very keen to include something like that into the tree. Usually you want to have Xvfb purpose driven, like separated Xvfb for each CI run, for selenium and such, meaning system-wide started Xvfb is not really that useful. There's little value in adding it, and it also do not support systemd which narrows potential uses even more. While I appreciate your contribution, we will not add it into the tree. Dear Pioter, nice to get some feedback after 8 years ;-) (In reply to Piotr Karbowski from comment #3) > I am not very keen to include something like that into the tree. Usually you > want to have Xvfb purpose driven, like separated Xvfb for each CI run, for > selenium and such, meaning system-wide started Xvfb is not really that > useful. There's little value in adding it, and it also do not support > systemd which narrows potential uses even more. While I appreciate your > contribution, we will not add it into the tree. I certainly respect your decision to reject the contribution. However, complaining about missing systemd support for a contribution from 2013 is a bit unfair. And just for the record, there was a valid use case at that time, I used to run Xvfb within vservers (pre-containers) for software requiring an X11 server or to provide X11 applications to users without a full-blown VM. For both cases Xvfb was run system-wide. Best regards, Christian |