Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable.  It seemed that going xorg
modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
you keep an independent record of every package installed.  I was pissed
because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it!  Eventually
updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had
an unusable system.  I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade
from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X.

BillK


On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to 
> > remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is 
> > something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block 
> > requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which 
> > overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges 
> > xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade 
> > again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but 
> > portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when he 
> > emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged...
> 
> That's a definite possibility. But I don't _think_ everyone encountering
> this problem has hit it, although I could be wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
> 
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