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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:22:03
Message-Id: 20060125061837.4ad0b477@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X by Joshua Baergen
1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:00:14 -0700 Joshua Baergen
2 <joshuabaergen@g.o> wrote:
3 | To be clear here: nothing will be broken. Xorg 7.0 will just not
4 | provide virtual/x11 (and in fact blocks it), so there will be issues
5 | with blocks showing up due to the upgrade path. Avoiding the upgrade
6 | (and blockage) is very easy if necessary (eg, you use 200 unported
7 | packages or something).
8
9 That is exactly the issue. Your average ~arch user is going to get
10 pages and pages of nasty red incomprehensible blocks simply because
11 you're making Xorg 7 block the virtual rather than provide it.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium)
15 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
16 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>