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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03  5:37 UTC|newest]

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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