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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:45:07
Message-Id: 1157402173.11844.59.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies by don
1 On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:34 -0700, don wrote:
2 > I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work.
3 > I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version.
4 >
5 > However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list
6 > here.
7 >
8 > Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version
9 > that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I
10 > would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove
11 > a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?).
12 >
13 > Thanks
14 > Don Reid
15
16 Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want
17 in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say "emerge -av xorg-x11"? That
18 should downgrade everything that needs to be downgraded...
19
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies don <don_reid@×××××××.net>