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 1QQ7cr-0005ed-TZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:43:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3EC01C009; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1371C009 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5AE1B400C for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.871 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.871 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.272, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 q3UgmapMiCnU for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D551B4009 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 00:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7az-0006go-D0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 02:41:37 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-204.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.204]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 02:41:37 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-204.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 02:41:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 ?? Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:41:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-204.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110525 Lightning/1.0b3pre In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d68ad54ab0a6e93d356669a9a99dfba8 On 05/26/2011 07:04 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wro= te: >>> >>> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from >>> gnome2 is difficult. Did you >>> >>> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1 >>> 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 >>> 3. Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 >>> 4. Do something else >> >> All of the above? :D >> >> I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make >> =3Dgnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There >> were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending >> package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup) >> ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I >> *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine" >> GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of >> emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had any >> problem since then. >> >> Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge >> --depclean. >> >> It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should >> do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something >> like that). >=20 > Sounds like I should do it on my spare laptop first. > thanks again. Have you considered doing all of this experimenting on a virtual machine? VirtualBox is so easy to use now, I will definitely try gnome3 on a VM before "upgrading" on this machine, which is the one I use for real work.