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 1MJGAt-0001pS-MG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C6F1E06A6; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA383E06A6 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98737B400D for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.521 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.521 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.078, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uvioQbJn1srW for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19317B4002 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MJGAf-0005WV-Ht for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:01 +0000 Received: from athedsl-370776.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.0.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:01 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-370776.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:17:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:16:48 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0906231620i2aa5204u28f6e181183fcc96@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231640o792ce292t827bf0935177c0e0@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231653p550bc483nfd2cda8bad52b4c3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906231706s3c140069rdbb9822e9b29699f@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-370776.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090622 Thunderbird/3.0b2 In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906231706s3c140069rdbb9822e9b29699f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0e20a594-7115-4171-9fcc-1afab7602851 X-Archives-Hash: 95b52a97a897bc9327710b6549354ac8 On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >[...] > Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing > what I was just using: > [...] > > Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it > on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in > /var/db/pkg. No tar files, just other programming junk. > > I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just > thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot > immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems > it's not about my choice anymore. Bummer. I hate to say this, but if you have a machine that you don't keep up to date by doing full updates at least each month or two, then Gentoo is *not* for you because Gentoo simply lacks the notion of "stable". "Stable" refers to package versions, not system stability. Gentoo is never "stable" in that sense like other distros that offer "stable" releases. Something like Debian stable should be more appropriate and far more easier to keep operational for machines like that.