Yeah if you can’t tell, I’m running out of cool titles for blogging.
Anyway this is quite self-explaining. Tonight I spent some time, after a careful emerge depclean, patching KDE to remove some stray linking to libXcomposite and libXscreensaver in kwin, kdesktop and kicker.
The patches consisted mainly of configure.in.in mangling to remove the reference, and I committed them on upstream SVN so that they are available for next versions, too.
I just hope we’ll have someone handling KDE bump to 3.5.1 with split ebuilds because I’m mostly scared of doing it again.
Okay, I think I’ll go back looking for what links to xinerama, maybe I’ll find something that can be patched to get rid of that one form my system as I don’t use it.
The first target is gxine, as usual 😉
Update: okay I ended up adding a few more patches and xinerama useflag then. Gxine, Kaffeine and KSplashML are honouring –without-xinerama in main portage now (and with the exception of Gxine they are also upstream). I have a local modified ebuild for x11vnc and tvtime, both submitted upstream and waiting for them to see if I should send the patches to swegener and obz. I’m rebuilding GTK+ now but I might have hit an issue with –as-needed due to test programs linking to installed libraries instead of the ones just built, waiting now to see if it’s a trivial fix as I hope.
VLC is the last package I have on the system that links against xinerama (well ok there’s still wxGTK here but it’s probably a consequence of GTK+ as it does not support –as-needed), but I have yet to try preparing a patch for it as I wanted to leave it as last.
If I’m able to fix these three remaining packages, I should be able to get rid of xinerama altogether! Yeah! Obviously it would be more complex if I wasn’t using –as-needed as in that case libXinerama.so.1 was linked in most of my system.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more status updates.
