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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What do I mask to go back to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:22:07
Message-Id: 49E53660.6000203@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What do I mask to go back to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6 by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Mark Knecht wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> I'm having a terrible time figuring this out. xorg-server-1.5 has
7 >>> totally broken my wife's machine in terms of the one thing she wants
8 >>> for fun which is MythTV. I need to take the machine back to the
9 >>> previous version of xorg-server but so far I Cannot figure out what to
10 >>> remove with emerge -C and what to mask to get this to work.
11 >>>
12 >>> Can someone better than I please tell me what to do here?
13 >>>
14 >>> Thanks,
15 >>> Mark
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >> I'm not better but I did the same thing on my rig. I hope this will help.
21 >>
22 >> # ######## xorg-server masking #########
23 >>
24 >>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r4
25 >>>
26 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2
27 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3
28 >> =x11-proto/printproto-1.0.4
29 >> =x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3
30 >> =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4
31 >>
32 >> Just put that in your package.mask file and run emerge -uvDNa world.
33 >>
34 >> Dale
35 >>
36 >>
37 >
38 > Thanks Dale. I was about half way through getting the same list. This
39 > will save a lot of time.
40 >
41 > I apprecaite your help,
42 > Mark
43 >
44 >
45 >
46
47 No problem. Just because I had to do it the hard way, one at a time,
48 doesn't mean everybody else should have to to.
49
50 We have autounmask, maybe we need automask too? It's a thought.
51
52 Dale
53
54 :-) :-)