From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxH7z-000626-E7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 05:37:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k635aXon021912; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 05:36:33 GMT Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k635Ue31010674 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 05:30:40 GMT Received-SPF: pass (newton.gmurray.org.uk: domain of graham@gmurray.org.uk designates 127.0.0.1 as permitted sender) receiver=newton.gmurray.org.uk; client-ip=127.0.0.1; helo=newton.gmurray.org.uk; envelope-from=graham@gmurray.org.uk; x-software=spfmilter 0.97 http://www.acme.com/software/spfmilter/ with libspf2-1.0.0; Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (graham@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k635UdWw008620 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v0.5.1 newton.gmurray.org.uk k635UdWw008620 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200507; t=1151904640; bh=dng0W5+InARd8X1pokAgVh8HWiY=; h=Received: X-Authentication-Warning:From:To:Subject:References:X-Hashcash: Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=X WCFuT7KxnhUk7sXWkX0jRqNqvsBWRcmZl3j0KnNitsQu5H+qIrYSuGaRQZHgodTkVHW aWxSIeM8FhrTq4DLJg== Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k635UdF3008619; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup References: <200607021124.10952.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <44A81C4C.6070004@gentoo.org> <200607022217.05884.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <44A82B99.7060809@gentoo.org> <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> X-Hashcash: 1:22:060703:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org::Oixz6wCnX4NK5iz8:0000000000000000000000000000000009LIH Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1151881520.517.7.camel@bunyip> (W. Kenworthy's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:05:19 +0800") Message-ID: <87odw7qmps.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 134eb7bf-27fd-4189-9bc1-c256ab7fbc0f X-Archives-Hash: 17de28ce90b63c213460e967fcf46160 "W.Kenworthy" 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list