You may disagree with my reason to file this against this particular package. I'm using xorg-server 1.7.1. At the end of 'xset -q' output: Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension As the server doesn't seem to build it, perhaps it would be a good idea to drop it as a dep ? I haven't checked yet if it's a case of "not built by default" or "dropped from the tree". Also, right now if it wasn't for RDEPEND, it would be automagical dep, but this looks like something to consider.
If the feature/dependency has a configure switch, please provide a patch and we'll consider it. If the feature is automagic, please write a patch to make it configurable. Thanks
Created attachment 210259 [details, diff] patch making xfontcache configurable (default off) Notice that other deps of xset in that configure.ac are automagical too - including xprint.
That's why, reopening (as I couldn't do it while creating attachment and a reason is required by bugzilla)
*** Bug 295809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 295878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Actualy this patch is not required for 1.1.0, but it might deserve some useflags for the ebuild maybe.
(In reply to comment #6) > Actualy this patch is not required for 1.1.0, but it might deserve some > useflags for the ebuild maybe. > Hmm, strange... I'm looking at 1.1.0 configure.ac and still seeing those automagical deps.
I looked it on the cgit, so i prolly forgot to click on the tag first :] Anyway we can use TRUNK configure.ac and useflag it maybe.
Another automagic dep : x11-libs/libXp Steps to reproduce : 1. # emerge -1 libXp xset 2. # emerge -C libXp 3. # revdep-rebuild -i -- -av You will see : > [ 29% ] * broken /usr/bin/xset (requires libXp.so.6)
new version of xset has ./configure switches for those deps. Just a reminder to whoever will do the bump :) Cheers
In main tree.
(In reply to comment #10) > new version of xset has ./configure switches for those deps. Just a reminder to > whoever will do the bump :) > > Cheers > And for the record, it was already in main tree when you wrote this comment remi :D
I forgot about this bug. Well, so the configure switches are there, but the choice is still wrong. xset should go with '--without-fontcache' and adjust deps for a very simple reason - this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.9-branch&id=0b45ba488d8a3e901b83e445d17e7e9a67047b6c removed that extension before xorg-server 1.5.0 was released.
Right after looking to it i disabled both off. Thanks for report and the patience.
