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