On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in <5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com>):
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100 > David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: [snip] >> You're welcome. The Xfce developers did the hard yakka, I simply >> massaged the patches so that they would apply cleanly on Gentoo systems. > > Thank you anyway. :) > > But may I ask you if applying those patches could result > in disappearing an alternative keyboard layout? There is nothing in those patches that can affect keyboard configuration. The patches only handle data received over a HTTP connection to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. No keyboard stuff at all. >> If you modify the ebuild then you *must* update the manifest. If you >> don't modify the ebuild then there is no need. > > Do you mean that putting the patches into /etc/portage/patches/ directory > and emerging the packet does not change the corresponding ebuild? The ebuild is a small text file that scripts the build process. The patches are external files to this process. As a result, the patches do not affect the MD5 checksum for the ebuild file in the package's manifest. > According to my experience, it is not the case because, reemerging the > xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches deleted from /etc/portage/patches/ > directory, I've still got the working plugin and, only after unmerging it > and re-emerging it again without the patches, I returned to its "no-data" > condition. If it remained working then it was probably because you remained logged in to your Xfce desktop, which has the plugin cached inside the Xfce panel's address space. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
