games-util/gamemode: Update 9999

Remove outdated comments about SCHED_ISO: The MuQSS scheduler is mostly
gone from all kernels, and even CK says that the new EEVDF scheduler
implements most of his design ideas.

Also, bump inih requirement to at least v54.

Signed-off-by: Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 51 deletions

diff --git a/games-util/gamemode/gamemode-9999.ebuild b/games-util/gamemode/gamemode-9999.ebuild
index 5807b8187fbf..746c7b5239eb 100644
--- a/games-util/gamemode/gamemode-9999.ebuild
+++ b/games-util/gamemode/gamemode-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -28,17 +28,13 @@ REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( systemd elogind )"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	acct-group/gamemode
-	>=dev-libs/inih-53
+	>=dev-libs/inih-54
 	sys-apps/dbus[${MULTILIB_USEDEP},systemd(+)=,elogind(-)=]
 	sys-auth/polkit
 	sys-libs/libcap
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.7-static-libs.patch
-)
-
 DOCS=(
 	CHANGELOG.md
 	LICENSE.txt
@@ -46,42 +42,13 @@ DOCS=(
 	example/gamemode.ini
 )
 
-pkg_pretend() {
-	elog
-	elog "GameMode needs a kernel capable of SCHED_ISO to use its soft realtime"
-	elog "feature. Example of a kernel providing that is sys-kernel/pf-sources."
-	elog
-	elog "Support for soft realtime is completely optional. It may provide the"
-	elog "following benefits with systems having at least four CPU cores:"
-	elog
-	elog "  * more CPU shares allocated exclusively to the game"
-	elog "  * reduced input lag and reduced thread latency"
-	elog "  * more consistent frame times resulting in less microstutters"
-	elog
-	elog "You probably won't benefit from soft realtime mode and thus don't need"
-	elog "SCHED_ISO if:"
-	elog
-	elog "  * Your CPU has less than four cores because the game may experience"
-	elog "    priority inversion with the graphics driver (thus heuristics"
-	elog "    automatically disable SCHED_ISO usage then)"
-	elog "  * Your game uses busy-loops to interface with the graphics driver"
-	elog "    but you may still force SCHED_ISO per configuation file, YMMV,"
-	elog "    it depends on the graphics driver implementation, i.e. usage of"
-	elog "    __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS or similar."
-	elog "  * If your game causes more than 70% CPU usage across all cores,"
-	elog "    SCHED_ISO automatically turns off and on depending on usage and"
-	elog "    is processed with higher-than-normal priority then (renice)."
-	elog "    This auto-switching may result in a lesser game experience."
-	elog
-	elog "For more info look at:"
-	elog "https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/blob/${GAMEMODE_GIT_PTR}/README.md"
-	elog
-}
-
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	local emesonargs=(
-		-Dwith-systemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
+		-Dwith-examples=false
 		-Dwith-pam-limits-dir="${EPREFIX}"/etc/security/limits.d
+		-Dwith-pam-renicing=true
+		-Dwith-privileged-group=gamemode
+		-Dwith-systemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
 	)
 	if multilib_is_native_abi; then
 		emesonargs+=(
@@ -91,8 +58,6 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 	else
 		emesonargs+=(
 			-Dwith-sd-bus-provider=no-daemon
-			-Dwith-pam-renicing=false
-			-Dwith-examples=false
 			-Dwith-util=false
 		)
 	fi
@@ -102,9 +67,9 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 
 pkg_postinst() {
 	elog
-	elog "GameMode has optional support for adjusting nice and ioprio of games"
-	elog "running with it. You may need to adjust your PAM limits to make use"
-	elog "of this. You need to be in the gamemode group for this to work."
+	elog "GameMode requires permissions to adjust your PAM limits and change system"
+	elog "performance settings (overclocking, scheduling, L2 cache usage, mitigations"
+	elog "etc). This permission is granted via the gamemode group."
 	elog
 	elog "Run the following command as root to add your user:"
 	elog "# gpasswd -a USER gamemode  # with USER = your user name"
@@ -113,16 +78,19 @@ pkg_postinst() {
 	elog
 	elog "# gamemoded -t"
 	elog
-	elog "GameMode supports GPU optimizations. It defaults to OFF. Any"
-	elog "damage resulting from usage of this is your own responsibility."
+	elog "GameMode supports GPU optimizations. It defaults to OFF. Any damage"
+	elog "resulting from usage of this is your own responsibility.  For safety"
+	elog "reasons, GPU settings are not allowed from \$HOME but only from"
+	elog "administrative directories."
 	elog
-	elog "systemd user sessions will automatically run the daemon on demand,"
-	elog "it does not need to be enabled explicitly. Games not supporting"
-	elog "GameMode natively can still make use of it, just add"
+	elog "systemd user sessions will automatically run the daemon on demand, it does"
+	elog "not need to be enabled explicitly. Games not supporting GameMode natively"
+	elog "can still make use of it, just add"
 	elog
 	elog "gamemoderun %command%"
 	elog
-	elog "to the start options of any steam game to enable optimizations"
-	elog "automatically as you start the game."
+	elog "to the start options of any Steam game to enable optimizations automatically"
+	elog "as you start the game. Similar options exist for other launchers like"
+	elog "Bottles or Lutris."
 	elog
 }