From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxswR-0005sZ-Er for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:46:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD701E0789; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75593E0789 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so830394fge.10 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:46:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=RJbTWBdN0M1/aiKhyyB+n3bg4co6xS61ve2WJa85m20=; b=VJWbhk+TcK7lo2DJUIX8DzKoir6eiTHGOg27W02ttCo2/hCWknP8atyIBEDzfbyFaK 20nDXIERLU9enqA1A6sEHqH/vvmj2PXJrM5B+mT3pWqPuA7nRgIwFpcKGIwStS4x6Iyn 89aKIiVSdZgo0bIPDJcjfOTLhRDWXlxMWC/ZA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=BiTIRCPEHfnVyOi8RtF+r4XMD3d1V3TUllP0HX7eY+sSQbsejE4Zc9wZDh4zOWSz1U RVK1i9/HfzBiCmrJrUezRE0zCgm86ykGD0o2WuIN+RWvEhGGTvdjW0zGfpHfhz5ReB3+ HXVRtRfkpLS6EVB1Q0EU0IzIKcODxxh9IfhsY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.168.221 with SMTP id l29mr639218hbe.118.1255484772797; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:46:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?) From: Denis To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: f3df3c66-c04a-4c94-815f-02487d0a5472 X-Archives-Hash: dd175900d472652968aafcb105b85ecf I cleared everything X related from my box, and it is still alive and well :-) Now, as I was explaining in my previous thread, I would like to re-install X and all related apps, but forcing the older libxcb version. After I upgraded to libxcb 1.4 a few days ago, my X was unstable and kept crashing while scrolling in Mathematica, so I wanted to clear everything X out, start from scratch, and revert to my original X configuration. Here is the new problem. In my package.mask, I specify: >=x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.6 >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 My USE is now: "alsa ao bash-completion bzip2 cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection ieee1394 lame ldap libwww mad mmx mmxext mp3 openal oss ppds rtc smp spell sse sse2 tta usb wavpack winbind xml -dri -isdnlog -pppd" So, I put in the X USE flag and attempt emerge -NDavu xorg-x11 and get !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-libs/libxcb-1.2" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/libxcb-1.4-r1 (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "x11-libs/libX11-1.2.2" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "x11-libs/libXv-1.0.4" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "xorg-x11" [argument]) What gives? Am I doing something stupid (well, aside from trying to downgrade...), or is there a way for me to fix this by some keywording trickery or something to that effect? Help, please :-)