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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-pr@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pr] [Fwd: Modular X entering ~arch]
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:43:14
Message-Id: 43D47AEC.8010204@gentoo.org
1 Here's the note I plan to send out about modular X to GWN, -announce,
2 forums, and wherever else I can think of. I'd appreciate a quick
3 look-over and suggestion of other places to put it. Also, who should I
4 talk to if I want to get this posted to -announce?
5
6 Thanks,
7 Donnie
8
9 -------- Original Message --------
10 Subject: Modular X entering ~arch
11 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:39:09 -0800
12 From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
13 To: gwn-feedback@g.o
14 CC: x11@g.o
15
16 The X team members plan to remove all 289 modular X packages from
17 package.mask on Wednesday, 25 January. They will enter ~arch (testing)
18 for all the architectures for which they're keyworded: alpha, amd64,
19 arm, ia64, mips, ppc, sh, sparc and x86. To learn how to upgrade
20 properly, read the migration guide
21 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml> before
22 starting the upgrade. It discusses how the USE flags changed, why X.Org
23 went modular and why `emerge xorg-x11` won't be quite enough yet.
24
25 Not all packages in the tree will work with modular X when it enters
26 ~arch, although the most common applications already do. The X team
27 encourages users and developers to contribute fixes to their favorite
28 packages by reading the porting guide
29 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/porting-modular-x-howto.xml>.
30 Applications requiring the most work include games and packages without
31 a listed maintainer in metadata.xml or altogether lacking metadata.
32
33 Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> provides a list of all unported
34 applications along with their maintainers, updated daily, in his
35 webspace <http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/broken_modular/>. A graph of
36 porting progress exists in the same location. If you encounter any bugs
37 with the migration, please report them at Gentoo's Bugzilla
38 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/>.
39
40
41 If you have any changes to the above, please let me know so I can make
42 sure they get propagated to other announcement channels as well.
43
44 Thanks,
45 Donnie

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Re: [gentoo-pr] [Fwd: Modular X entering ~arch] Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>