no xgl ebuild

makkintosh · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

hi!
i cannot understand. why dont i have xgl packages at all at my system? neither stable , nor with ~x86 ...
what is the problem?
i did emerge --sync few days ago. and still i dont have anything ,people talk about on other threads.
thanx

whiskas · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

You might want to read this particular document.

sternklang · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject:

As whiskas said -- read the HowTo. Xgl is not in Portage, it's available through an overlay.

mark_alec · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software.

CoffeeBuzz · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

Maybe it should be in portage?

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Zubzub · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject:

Birtz · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:07 am Post subject:

Another vote for portage include. Hell, we do have GCC 4.2 alpha, what is wrong in having masked Xgl?

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zietbukuel · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 607

Yeah... XGL should be in portage...

sternklang · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

There's a more detailed discussion in this bug about adding Xgl to Portage. I agree with those who say the rapid pace of development, the alpha status of Xgl/compiz and the need for CVS snapshots of various packages in Portage mean it's too soon to add it to Portage.

Given how much tweaking is necessary to get it to work properly, what's the big deal about using an overlay? CoffeeBuzz, nesl247 and roderick are doing a fantastic job maintaining xgl-coffee. If you want Xgl, read the excellent HowTo, install via the overlay, and go to the main Xgl forum thread if you have problems.

When Xegl is working properly (I think in Xorg 7.2) so we have a unified Xgl-based server instead of the current Xgl-on-top-of-Xorg-server workaround we have now, and when the current alpha deps are release versions, and when David Reveman has got Gnome-based compiz into beta-shape and someone has made it work more cleanly under KDE, then it will be time to add it to Portage.