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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:23, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:16, Spider wrote: |
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> > begin quote |
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> > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:00:18 -0500 |
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> > Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > I don't understand why the switch from xfree to xorg-x11 is a big |
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> > > deal. They are currently source and binary compatible. Almost |
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> > > everything (if not everything) works the same with xorg-x11 as it did |
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> > > with xfree. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Except that if you do something like this : |
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> > emerge sync; emerge -u world |
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> > cp -a /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/ssh /etc/pass* /etc/grou* /etc/shad* |
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> > /etc/conf.d /etc/pcmcia /etc/rc.conf /var/lib/portage/world /backup |
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> > |
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> > reformat, unpack the -same- stage3, and then restore them... |
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> > |
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> > oops. suddenly things don't work because even when they are binary |
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> > compatible, they aren't config compatible, and users should be able to |
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> > expect that if they install the same applications (face it, the world |
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> > file isn't likely to contain the xfree version, most likely it contains |
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> > mozilla, Gnome, KDE, xfce or other such thing that brought X in as a |
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> > dependency ) They will get them. We currently break reliability often, |
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> > which is a pretty bad thing. :-/ |
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> > |
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> > only by actually doing things like this new profile, can we in fact |
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> > increase reliability. |
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> |
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> So what is the consensus? I am either going to make the new profile or |
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> make xorg-x11 the default in the current profile as soon as spyderous |
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> marks it stable, so we can start building the stages for 2004.2. |
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If you truly think it is the best thing to do, and have developer |
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consensus, then by all means, do it. The opinion of the people who |
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directly maintain the package has more weight than mine, as they know |
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wtf is going on as well as the reasoning behind a new profile. |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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