On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:37:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then
> > reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro.
> The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation
> you are also likely to be changing
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your
> > proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges
> > gnome which first emerges X
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your
> proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges
> gnome which first emerges X11 back again.
Except i this example you are likely to install GNO
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AM> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:29 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote:
AM> >
AM> > Hmm, it can be done with "garbage collector principe". Each
AM> > package will have counter which increases when some package which
AM> > depend o
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:29 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> NR> new system, no gui installed.
> NR>
> NR> I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency.
> NR>
> NR> I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg,
> NR> because it is already installed.
> NR>
> NR
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:29, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> Hmm, it can be done with "garbage collector principe". Each
> package will have counter which increases when some package which depend on
> it is installed. Decreased, when the package is uninstalled. If counter is
> zero, "dependency" packag
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:37:45 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NR>
NR> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100
NR> Graham Murray wrote:
NR>
NR> > Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal
NR> > of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages
NR>
On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:39, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > You can grab a list of all modular
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100
Graham Murray wrote:
> "W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg
> > modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
> > you keep an independent record of eve
Graham Murray wrote:
> Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal
> of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages
> which it caused to be installed.
Heard of emerge --depclean? Use it with care, though.
Thanks,
Donnie
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"W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg
> modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
> you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed
> because modular didnt work and
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:05:19 +0800
W.Kenworthy wrote:
> yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg
> modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
> you keep an independent record of every package installed.
Wouldn't genlop give you that i
yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg
modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless
you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed
because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually
updates caught
On Sunday 02 July 2006 23:39, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > You can grab a list of all modular
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff.
>>>
>>> You can grab a list of all modular X packages at
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/pr
On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff.
> >
> > You can grab a list of all modular X packages at
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modul
On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff.
>
> You can grab a list of all modular X packages at
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and
> run this:
>
> emerge -1 $(
pgp20JWrOPOKi.
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no
>>> joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and
>>> recompile the packages from scratch?
>> You could try `emerge -ep x
On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no
> > joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and
> > recompile the packages from scratch?
>
> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`.
I guess what I w
On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:24, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> That's a definite possibility. But I don't _think_ everyone encountering
> this problem has hit it, although I could be wrong.
nichoj experienced a similar thing with java-config-1.2 vs.
java-config-wrapper. It wasn't many but there were a fe
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to
> remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is
> something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block
> requiring him to remove modular X fir
On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I
> > logged in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx',
> > it's not there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to
> > xorg-x11
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I logged
> in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', it's not
> there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've
This is a really weird issue that's been co
I upgraded my xorg-x11 the other day. I followed the upgrade how-to, and
everything seemed to go fine. However when I rebooted it was screwed up.
The xorg.conf was a mess. I tried fixing it from memory but I couldn't sort
it, and I'd forgoten to make a back up MY FAULT. Anyway I downgraded
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