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Simon Strandman posted <43575756.8060908@×××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:37:42 +0200: |
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> Donnie Berkholz skrev: |
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>> The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And |
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>> fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the |
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>> bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it starts to bleed, |
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>> comes the complete package in Portage -- all 296 packages worth. |
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> Will you add a ebuild for the 6.9-RC1 release also, or will gentoo go |
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> completely for the modular tree? |
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Donnie mentioned some weeks/months ago here on dev, when discussing the |
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move to modular, that Gentoo would be going totally modular. It fits with |
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the way Gentoo does things, allowing folks to avoid installing what they |
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don't need, AND the 6.9 monolithic release has been announced as basically |
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the end of the monolithic line upstream, so we'd have to move to it |
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eventually in any case. |
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Note that even the monolithic X ebuilds have had a couple modules split |
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out, for some time, xterm's the example I remember. |
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That's why... if you've been following, there hasn't been anything beyond |
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the monolithic 6.8.99.15 snapshot in portage, as work had switched to |
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modular, altho .15 has had a few -rX releases. |
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FWIW, I tried unmasking the modular ebuilds and merging using Donnie's |
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HOWTO, as posted here earlier, but while it all compiled, something wasn't |
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right and X wouldn't launch. I never had time to track it down, tho I |
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really wanted to get it running as I've been hacking up the monolithic |
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ebuilds to remove stuff I didn't want, for some time, so the best |
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I've been able to do is run those .15 monolithic snapshots mentioned |
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earlier. (It's quite possible the issue was related to gcc4 or the masked |
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binutils and glibc I'm running in relation to that, or it could have been |
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that in combination with my arch, amd64, or... it could have been just my |
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particular installation...) |
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I'm currently in the middle of compiling KDE-3.5.0-beta2, which is out, |
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and will probably take a couple days to recuperate after that before |
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attempting modular-X again. However, it's a pretty safe bet I'll be |
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trying it before the end of next week! |
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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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