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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??
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On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you. =C2=A0Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from
>> gnome2 is difficult. =C2=A0Did you
>>
>> 1. =C2=A0Upgrade from 2.32.1
>> 2. =C2=A0Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3
>> 3. =C2=A0Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3
>> 4. =C2=A0Do 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).

Thanks again for sharing your experiences.
allan