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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, "wkuz@××.pl" <wkuz@××.pl>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-x11 masked
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:53:59
Message-Id: 6061c5bd-f0aa-cc8d-ea17-5b5efb155847@applied-asynchrony.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 masked by "wkuz@op.pl"
1 On 2022-10-04 08:40, wkuz@××.pl wrote:
2 > Hello everyone!
3 > Upon upgrade, portage told me that x11-base/xorg-x11 is masked and will
4 > be removed from the repo on November 1st. I thought "ok, why not do it
5 > now", so I have typed:
6 > # emerge -W x11-base/xorg-x11
7 > # emerge -cav
8 > and there was a surprise (not a pleasant one). Since xorg-x11 is a
9 > metapackage it pulled so many things I would like to have still here.
10 > Is there any reasonable way to put all those packages to my world file,
11 > so I can easily remove xorg-x11 without deleting half of my desktop
12 > apps?
13
14 Please see discussions in:
15
16 https://bugs.gentoo.org/872119
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/873973
18
19 cheers,
20 Holger