xfs is missing from xorg-x11 v6.8.1.901 when, emerging that xfs no longer exists? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Sounds like you missed the "font-server" USE flag..?
I see the same problem. I've been using the xfree package for a long time. Now that xfree has been "upgraded" to xorg-x11 (I can't find xfree in the portage tree anywhere) I grabbed this update as a part of normal system/world updates and there's no xfs. Maybe there's some portage message that gets spit out when "upgrading" from xfree to xorg-x11 that indicates you need to change your USE flags, but personally I don't always sit around and watch the compiles. And if there is/was such a message, it probably would be helpful to see something like this _before_ "upgrading". So is this supposed to be a fix? Change USE flag and rebuild?
Fix is to use font-server flag, add it to /etc/make.conf or USE="font-server" emerge x11-xorg Anyway, there is font-server in previous xorg/xfree, so this is stupid. :(
By using the testing keywords (~arch), you agreed to test things. Complaining about the burden you brought upon yourself by doing so is a little hypocritical, don't you think? And you don't need to sit around and watch compiles. Responsible administrators should at least run emerge -vp or emerge -va before actually doing the emerge. If you had done so, that would have been your message: "There are new USE flags. Look at them, and see what they do." What point would a message during the compile be, since as you say, you don't sit around and watch? At any rate, I'll be adding some of these USE flags to the defaults at some point.
Running emerge -vp in no way indicates that a critical system application will be removed without modifying USE flags. Since you're a respsonsible developer try adding the obvious new USE flags to /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc.
donnie@supernova ~ $ grep font-server /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-base/kdrive:font-server - Enables font server support /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-base/xorg-x11:font-server - Build XFS, the X Font Server
Added some stuff to profiles yesterday, in time for stabling.
