Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > >> Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a >> downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated >> a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1. >> >> Thus my emerges now generate msgs that updates to xorg-server and xinit >> are being skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies. >> Other than this, the emerges perform normally and the system runs well. >> >> I could mask the newer versions of xorg-server and xinit and possibly >> prevent the emerge messages, but I am leaning toward leaving it as it is. >> This way when mesa is updated (to a hopefully fixed version) everything >> should update automatically. >> >> Does that sound reasonable. > > Yes, that will work fine. You'll just have to tolerate those messages in the > interim, but you know they are there and why. Nothing will break because of > it.
Thanks. allan
