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 4.43) id 1EGhZX-0006qF-Ta for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:38:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8HIVskx008729; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:31:54 GMT Received: from churchillrandoms.co.uk (p4-7036.uk2net.com [213.232.95.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8HIUBAX032104 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:30:11 GMT Received: from h-66-166-144-163.snvacaid.covad.net ([66.166.144.163] helo=[192.168.1.135]) by churchillrandoms.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1EGhXB-0003jp-Ux for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:35:34 +0100 Message-ID: <432C622B.9000503@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:36:27 -0700 From: Stefan Jones Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GNOME 2.12.0 Final - Testing References: <20050917104323.2C1B79F36B@derisoft.derived-software.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050917104323.2C1B79F36B@derisoft.derived-software.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d90464fd-f1d6-4fed-9b82-5e4865c18a48 X-Archives-Hash: 8e5e1e4dfdcbc62cfba2e85e855c21f7 Phil Richards wrote: > | ~ # emerge -puv --newuse gnome > >| >| These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >| >| Calculating dependencies \ >| !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/pmount" have been masked. >| !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: >| - sys-apps/pmount-0.9.3-r3 (masked by: package.mask) >| # Doug Goldstein (7 Sep 2005) >| # Remasking because the Gnome herd is too lazy to look >| # into bugs that are over 4 months old with regards to >| # hal and dbus. Patches provided and everything. >| # When I volunteered to fix it and handle any issues.. >| # I received the stock "wait for foser" response. > > >Normally, I would just unmask pmount, but the comment doesn't exactly >fill me with confidence as regards the stability of pmount (and whereas >I am happy for gnome to crash in a heap, I tend to be a little more >cautious around things that work at lower levels in the system)... > >Should I just go ahead and unmask, or what if I want to test out gnome >2.12? > > Unmask pmount, it is needed now to get useful hal support where you can mount USB drives from nautilus when they are hot plugged. This is because with the new hal they have removed the fstab updater. ( or you could just put -hal in your USE flags, but better just unmasking it and finding the bugs - I have not found any ) Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list