On 05/26/2011 07:04 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you.  Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from
>>> gnome2 is difficult.  Did you
>>>
>>> 1.  Upgrade from 2.32.1
>>> 2.  Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3
>>> 3.  Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3
>>> 4.  Do something else
>>
>> All of the above? :D
>>
>> I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make
>> =gnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There
>> were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending
>> package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup)
>> ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I
>> *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine"
>> GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of
>> emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had  any
>> problem since then.
>>
>> Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge
>> --depclean.
>>
>> It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should
>> do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something
>> like that).
> 
> Sounds like I should do it on my spare laptop first.
> thanks again.

Have you considered doing all of this experimenting on a virtual machine?

VirtualBox is so easy to use now, I will definitely try gnome3 on a VM
before "upgrading" on this machine, which is the one I use for real work.