Are we rebasing xorg-x11 packages in F20?

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Tue Nov 25 08:26:32 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 09:14 +0100, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my desktop was completely broken this morning because my startup scripts
> rely on xrandr utility. An older update from this summer which I applied
> recently changed it's output so device ids now contain dash characters
> (e.g. instead VGA0 I see VGA-1).

Yeah, it's a bit annoying, just got caught by it myself.

I have a simple kvm switch and I can't leave it to defaults or I get a
low res display.

So I have to use a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-monitor.conf.

> 
> I just wonder why this landed into stable repository. The package
> changelog really shows it's a rolling release kinda thing.
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server-utils.git/log/?h=f20
> 
> I understand some packages has exceptions, like kernel, firmware and
> such things. But xorg tools? Thanks for explanation.
> 
> -- 
> Later,
>  Lukas #lzap Zapletal




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