[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers 325.15 removal

[»Q«]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:24:58 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 15/12/13 06:39, »Q« wrote:
> > It looks to me as if the removal of nvidia-drivers-325.15 was a
> > mistake, but I've got a lot going on in the meat world right now,
> > and I don't want to file a bug if I've simply gotten confused.
> >
> > I run mostly stable amd64.  I have 325.15 installed, and nothing
> > regarding nvidia-drivers in /etc/portage/package/accept_keywords,
> > so I *think* 325.15 was the latest stable and shouldn't have been
> > removed for being old.  The removal makes portage want to downgrade
> > the package for me.
> >
> > I see in the changelog:
> >
> >    14 Dec 2013; Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
> > -nvidia-drivers-325.15.ebuild: Old.
> >
> >    [...]
> >
> >    02 Nov 2013; Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
> > -nvidia-drivers-325.08.ebuild, nvidia-drivers-325.15.ebuild:
> >    Stable for AMD64 x86 too.
> >
> > Could someone confirm or set me straight?
>
> I confirm. The latest unmasked version is 319.76 (I'm using that
> one.) 331.20 is also in portage (latest upstream stable), but it's
> masked in portage. Usually, if you try to explicitly emerge something
> that's masked, you get a message telling you why it's masked:
>
>    $ emerge -p =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20
>    ...
>    [ebuild     U #] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 [319.76]
>
>    The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>     (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
>    # required by =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 (argument)
>    # /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/kde/package.mask:
>    # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> (1 Dec 2013)
>    # Mask recent nvidia drivers because of sigprocmask corruption,
> bug 487558
>    # (this hits akonadi and makes significant parts of KDE hang)
>    =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20
>
> So it was masked due to conflicts with KDE. If you're not using KDE,
> it might be safe to unmask it.

I was using 331.20, but I do use KDE and it was causing me those hangs.
At the time 331.20 was masked, I switched to 325.15.  Now that 325.15
has been removed from the tree, the latest stable is 319.19, and
that's what portage wants to downgrade me to as of yesterday.

I guess my question boils down to:  Was 325.15 ever stabilized?  

If it was stabilized, it shouldn't have been removed simply due oldness.

If it was *not* stabilized, the only issue is between my ears.