In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse...
Yesterday I did an emerge -u world which upgraded xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 to 1.0.2-r4. The result was a non-working xserver. I tried to roll back to 1.0.2-r3 and found that it had already been removed from portage. I then tried the only other available ebuild (1.0.99 or something) and found that that did not work either. The bug report is #132598 if you want to see whether things improve in this department. In other words I have no X at all at the moment and I am composing this email on my wife's powerbook using yahoo webmail, which really sucks. Stick with 6.8.2 for the time being. 7 works a little better with wine, but overall it is the kind of pain in the arse that shoots most of the way back up your digestive tract. Robert > > On 5/4/06, Allan Spagnol Comar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I am instaling a new gentoo box with x86, and I > have a doubt about > > > instaling xorg, I know that 7.0 is masked but > almost getting stable, > > > and I know that migrating from one another is a > little traumatic, so Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
