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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:16, Spider wrote: |
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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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> > 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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> 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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> reformat, unpack the -same- stage3, and then restore them... |
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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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> only by actually doing things like this new profile, can we in fact |
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> increase reliability. |
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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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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a pengiun? |
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