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 1FxWGW-0007lR-2x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:47:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63LkDWE021311; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:46:13 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63LbjiW020829 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:37:46 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6301A42C2 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:34:36 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup In-Reply-To: <87odw7qmps.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> <87odw7qmps.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Message-Id: <20060704093509.F86E.NICK@rout.co.nz> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.02 [en] X-Archives-Salt: d36189c8-e6cd-4df0-b371-8700d9f882b7 X-Archives-Hash: 9c494a326f61efc08004da2cb29cdac3 On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > "W.Kenworthy" writes: > > > 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. > > Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal > of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages > which it caused to be installed. ummmm think about this. new system, no gui installed. I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, because it is already installed. I decide I do not want kde because i prefer gnome. I unsinstall kde-meta. Under your scheme it would also uninstall xorg-x11. But that is not what you want! > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list