From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odw7qmps.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> (W. Kenworthy's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:05:19 +0800")
"W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au> writes:
> yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg
> modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
> you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed
> because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually
> updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had
> an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade
> from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X.
Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal
of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages
which it caused to be installed.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-02 15:24 [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Matthew R. Lee
2006-07-02 19:19 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 20:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 20:24 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 20:29 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 23:05 ` W.Kenworthy
2006-07-03 3:31 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-03 5:30 ` Graham Murray [this message]
2006-07-03 7:12 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-03 21:37 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-04 16:29 ` Re[2]: " Robert Cernansky
2006-07-04 16:54 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-04 17:11 ` Re[2]: " Alan McKinnon
2006-07-04 17:44 ` Re[4]: " Robert Cernansky
2006-07-04 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 3:37 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-05 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-02 20:39 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 20:53 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 21:00 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 21:39 ` Matthew R. Lee
2006-07-02 21:45 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 22:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-03 22:22 ` Matthew R. Lee
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