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 1Fxyck-0007xM-Oj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:04:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k653w2kx024305; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:58:03 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 k653bQ0J000060 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:37:27 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8985742C2 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:34:15 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:37:24 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup In-Reply-To: <20060704214521.618245dd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <1152033099.6231.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060704214521.618245dd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Message-Id: <20060705153523.6BD5.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: 1694bd36-b3a0-4406-bfc3-209e5f61c97e X-Archives-Hash: fd06cd03dce9110a5197bbedc8470ed3 On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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="buildpkg". Then > reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation you are also likely to be changing some USE flags, and the prebuilt buildpkg packages may need in fact to be built again against a new set of libraries. All of which is why I am glad I don't have to maintain portage and its associated tools :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list