Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies

[Donnie Berkholz]

don wrote:
> I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work.
> I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version.
>
> However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list
> here.
>
> Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version
> that works with xorg 6.9?  If it were something less basic than X, I
> would just unmerege them all and re-emerge.  But removing X will remove
> a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?).

You can get a list of all the packages at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this:

emerge portage-utils
emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $(< modular-x-packages.txt))

Thanks,
Donnie