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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxB87-00040t-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:13:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62NBZ0I011646; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:11:35 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62N5S4J000281 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:05:31 GMT Received: from 203-166-240-7.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.166.240.7]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 03 Jul 2006 07:05:27 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,199,1149436800"; d="scan'208"; a="361464384:sNHT76404260" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E6B14F4F5 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:05:23 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10451-01 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:05:21 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E5E11339E for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:05:20 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <44A82B99.7060809@gentoo.org> References: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> <200607022217.05884.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <44A82B99.7060809@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:05:19 +0800 Message-Id: <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k62NBZ0Z011646 X-Archives-Salt: cf778528-5adc-4257-a2ab-f695943b1398 X-Archives-Hash: ab05e2c3cf91881bb183fb78d9021150 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 =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > > When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires hi= m to=20 > > remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out t= here is=20 > > something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no b= lock=20 > > requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 wh= ich=20 > > overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmer= ges=20 > > xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to u= pgrade=20 > > again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files = but=20 > > portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So= when he=20 > > emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged... >=20 > That's a definite possibility. But I don't _think_ everyone encounterin= g > this problem has hit it, although I could be wrong. >=20 > Thanks, > Donnie >=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list