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