From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F1e2d-0000Ex-Eb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:22:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0P6LIxS018197; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:21:19 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0P6Infa007620 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:50 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1F1dzV-0007wp-Ln for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F1dzO-0004H4-I3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:42 +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:37 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X Message-ID: <20060125061837.4ad0b477@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <43D713EE.8070902@gentoo.org> References: <43D5D1E4.9020801@gentoo.org> <43D6AE0C.3080702@gentoo.org> <43D6B048.6010903@egr.msu.edu> <43D6B9AB.2040203@gentoo.org> <20060124222254.1a481008@enterprise.weeve.org> <43D713EE.8070902@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_i_ilK5qAC6LTDIyJD3ntMZB; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2839e1ac-ab19-4328-a447-0de9e0e8cfbe X-Archives-Hash: b1bb69dab93a9640266bc98984bbf2f2 --Sig_i_ilK5qAC6LTDIyJD3ntMZB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:00:14 -0700 Joshua Baergen wrote: | To be clear here: nothing will be broken. Xorg 7.0 will just not=20 | provide virtual/x11 (and in fact blocks it), so there will be issues=20 | with blocks showing up due to the upgrade path. Avoiding the upgrade=20 | (and blockage) is very easy if necessary (eg, you use 200 unported=20 | packages or something). That is exactly the issue. Your average ~arch user is going to get pages and pages of nasty red incomprehensible blocks simply because you're making Xorg 7 block the virtual rather than provide it. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_i_ilK5qAC6LTDIyJD3ntMZB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1xhB96zL6DUtXhERAiknAJ9JMtsKOZCXnfLUQxCB4towEh/OqQCfUZfX XCm7JBGREyAjvX7VL32CN08= =397H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_i_ilK5qAC6LTDIyJD3ntMZB-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list