On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:07:22 +0100 David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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. May be.
