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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version |
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> > that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I |
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> > would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove |
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> > a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). |
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> Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want |
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> in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say "emerge -av xorg-x11"? That |
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That just complains about many packages blocking it. |
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> You can get a list of all the packages at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this: |
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> emerge portage-utils |
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> emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $(< modular-x-packages.txt)) |
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Thanks, I was afraid that unmerging X would also try to unmerge all the |
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applications etc. that used it. I guess I was wrong. |
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Given that, I took the list of blocking packages, and did the above |
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with that list. Now I re-emerging the older ones. |
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