Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrade from gnome 2.2 to gnome 1.4 with emerge -u world?

[Dar-Klajid <dar@Dar-Klajid.de>]

Thanks for this answer, but isn't it strange that portage calls this a
downgrade? Perhaps the "D" should be Slot-specific?
After all this seems to be an upgrade of the gnome1.4-slot, right?

Ben

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:24, Spider wrote:
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> On 26 Feb 2003 10:15:10 +0100
> Benjamin Podszun <ben@galactic-tales.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there.
> > 
> > emerge -up --deep world gives me
> > 
> > [ebuild    UD] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.2.0.1-r1] 
> > 
> > I don't think that it's really a good idea to downgrade that far,
> > right?;) Any hints what could cause the problem?
> 
> SLOT ;)
> 
> gnome-panel 1.4 and 2.x are mutually nonintrusive (this -r2 is a fix for
> 1.4 so it won't overwrite 2.x's screenshooter util) and they will both
> stay happily in your system
> 
> the reason you might have gnome-panel 1.4 installed might be that you
> have some gnome program that wants to install a panel applet, but is
> still at the gtk-1.2 era (gnome 1.4 ). This makes the panel applet
> incompatible with the new gnome-panel, so it pulls in the old gtk 1.2
> panel, and builds nicely against it. (in fact you can actually run the
> gnome 1.4 panel on a gnome2 desktop : "panel &" ;)
> 
> 
> 
> //Spider
> 
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