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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:23:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609151123.09469.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609141847.07033.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu>

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On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:46, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Today I did the "mistake" of re-emerging
> (emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend
> ) x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 as a result of a changed USE-flag
> (GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE). Now when I try to do a new
> emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend
>  I am getting a lot of blocked packages and emerge also wants to pull in a
> lot of new packages. Here is a part of the output of the emerge....:
>
> [blocks B     ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3)
[SNIP]
> I have ">x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8" in /etc/portage/package.mask
> as I could not make my Laptop, with an ATI-videocard, work with the new
> modular X.
>
> Any suggestions on how to solve this?

Well, my suggestion would be to remove the mask and upgrade to modular 
xorg-x11. It won't be long before monolithic X will be unsupported and 
removed from the tree... My ATI video card works just fine with modular X.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-15  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14 16:46 [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11 Dan Johansson
2006-09-15  9:23 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
     [not found]   ` <9acccfe50609160952x19d14fb6l6765aa801a47a62d@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-17 11:40     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-09-17 14:53       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2006-09-17 15:26         ` Mick
2006-09-17 18:23           ` Kevin O'Gorman
2006-09-18  2:30             ` Walter Dnes
2006-09-17 23:16         ` Ryan Tandy
2006-09-18  0:46           ` Kevin O'Gorman

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