On Tuesday 16 May 2006 00:22, "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag': > In process of switching to nVIDIA drivers and following advice found in > forums to use the latest drivers. They recommend adding USE flag > "dlloader" and re-emerging xorg-x11. I notice from > /use/portage/profiles/use.local.desc that it enables the dynamic module > loader instead of the ELF one. > > So my question is why? What is the advantage?
From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only supported the dll loader. But, I'm not really sure. *shrug* -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
pgpbq1BV8hfny.pgp
Description: PGP signature
