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 1FxruJ-0006zg-2t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:54:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k64KqMAv012384; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:52:22 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k64KjNai000334 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:45:24 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Fxrlp-00026m-AU for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:45:21 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06001142495B for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Message-ID: <20060704214521.618245dd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1152033099.6231.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> <87odw7qmps.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20060704093509.F86E.NICK@rout.co.nz> <1152033099.6231.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0-rc2 (GTK+ 2.8.19; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_VKFI3gQqtd8vQAW.jhFWzmh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 1cf346f2-0305-451c-add0-a410073e74eb X-Archives-Hash: 885c3465ab15010064b019dc8d3870cc --Sig_VKFI3gQqtd8vQAW.jhFWzmh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your > proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges > gnome which first emerges X11 back again. Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME before removing KDE, otherwise you'd be left with no desktop. > This isn't so bad with a > binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES=3D"buildpkg". Then reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. --=20 Neil Bothwick If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. --Sig_VKFI3gQqtd8vQAW.jhFWzmh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqtNhum4al0N1GQMRApGGAJsEv1grhlsd5bhi28vzBJGqfRubLACgxoti nGc8vBiSNEXc2HY5V7O+zio= =UnC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_VKFI3gQqtd8vQAW.jhFWzmh-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list