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From: Dar-Klajid <dar@××××××××××.de>
To: Spider <spider@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrade from gnome 2.2 to gnome 1.4 with emerge -u world?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:49:35
Message-Id: 1046342124.1469.12.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Downgrade from gnome 2.2 to gnome 1.4 with emerge -u world? by Spider
1 Thanks for this answer, but isn't it strange that portage calls this a
2 downgrade? Perhaps the "D" should be Slot-specific?
3 After all this seems to be an upgrade of the gnome1.4-slot, right?
4
5 Ben
6
7 On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 11:24, Spider wrote:
8 > begin quote
9 > On 26 Feb 2003 10:15:10 +0100
10 > Benjamin Podszun <ben@××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
11 >
12 > > Hi there.
13 > >
14 > > emerge -up --deep world gives me
15 > >
16 > > [ebuild UD] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.2.0.1-r1]
17 > >
18 > > I don't think that it's really a good idea to downgrade that far,
19 > > right?;) Any hints what could cause the problem?
20 >
21 > SLOT ;)
22 >
23 > gnome-panel 1.4 and 2.x are mutually nonintrusive (this -r2 is a fix for
24 > 1.4 so it won't overwrite 2.x's screenshooter util) and they will both
25 > stay happily in your system
26 >
27 > the reason you might have gnome-panel 1.4 installed might be that you
28 > have some gnome program that wants to install a panel applet, but is
29 > still at the gtk-1.2 era (gnome 1.4 ). This makes the panel applet
30 > incompatible with the new gnome-panel, so it pulls in the old gtk 1.2
31 > panel, and builds nicely against it. (in fact you can actually run the
32 > gnome 1.4 panel on a gnome2 desktop : "panel &" ;)
33 >
34 >
35 >
36 > //Spider
37 >
38 >
39 > --
40 > begin .signature
41 > This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature!
42 > See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
43 > end
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