Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Janusz Bossy <janusz.bossy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> There is no problem with that. Yesterday i did an emerge -C xorg-x11
> while xorg was running, then compiled xorg-x11 again and restarted the
> X server. All is working fine, except I couldn't start the
> applications that were built against X when I didn't have it. Don't
> worry Linux isn't Windows :)

yeah, you probably replaced monolithic by modular and forgot to 
emerge several libs. or the ABI has changed.

I'm really glad I got rid of the monolithic monster w/o major
impacts. Yeah, a complete modular build takes a little bit longer
than monolithic due snoozy autofool ... but I can accept this
price for having a smaller and more clear structured installation.


cu
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