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"W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au> writes: |
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> yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg |
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> modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless |
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> you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed |
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> because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually |
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> updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had |
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> an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade |
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> from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X. |
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Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal |
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of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages |
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which it caused to be installed. |
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