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Sebastian Redl posted <43C2D107.9090204@×××××××××××.at>, excerpted below, |
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on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:09:27 +0100: |
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> Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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>>I also made a little script to help unmask all the packages needed, |
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>>anyway it is a process quite tedious :-) |
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> Care to share? It is indeed quite tedious. |
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Umm... xorg-x11-7.0 has been out for some time, altho it's still |
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currently masked as there remain around 400 packages that don't have their |
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dependencies set up correctly for modular X. The latest GWN (see the |
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Gentoo.org website for regular issues, but this one linked below) has |
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links to the relevant threads on the dev list, and a list (updated ~daily) |
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of the packages (mostly games) that still need the deps changed. |
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There's also an official modular-X migration HOWTO, linked in GWN, but |
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I'll link it below as well. Going by it should be MUCH safer, and reduce |
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the tedium of all those unmasks, as it's done in a single step, no script |
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required. (Hint, simply take the list from the main package.mask file and |
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copy it to your local package.unmask file, no tedious unmasking |
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one-at-a-time required!) |
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A special warning for those that are running a stable system with certain |
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unstable packages, however! Many of the packages that have already had |
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deps migrated have ONLY had them migrated in the latest ~arch versions! |
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If you are running a mostly stable amd64 system, there are MANY MORE |
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packages that won't have updated deps, probably closer to 1000 packages, |
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including many you likely have merged. Putting the still masked xorg-7.0 |
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on such a system is pretty much /begging/ for trouble! |
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xorg-x11-7.0 is headed for the move to ~arch, certainly, and as such, is |
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being actively supported in terms of bug reports and the like for ~arch |
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users. However, I would **NOT** recommend that regular/stable arch users |
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try it, as you could be in for some rather serious instability if you do, |
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and presumably, arch users don't want that. |
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As a base ~arch user here, running various still masked packages including |
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gcc-4.0.2 and gcc-4.1.0-snapshots, I've been running xorg-x11-7.0 for some |
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time now, with little problem. I even compiled it with gcc-4.1.0! |
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However, I'm not running anything still on the dep-unported list, the |
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plurality (~120 packages IIRC) of which are games, and my entire system is |
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at least ~amd64, if not even still-masked due to bleeding-edgeness stuff. |
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Again, I'd actively discourage anyone running stable arch from trying |
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xorg-x11-7.0 at this point, as you will very likely find problems you |
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have expressed an interest in /not/ dealing with, given your choice of |
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stable. Those with a heavy gaming interest may also wish to wait, as |
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there remain quite a few dep-unported gaming packages. |
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That migration HOWTO: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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GWN coverage (slightly outdated even as it was released, but still |
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quite informative): |
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http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060130-newsletter.xml |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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