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On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:46, Dan Johansson wrote: |
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> Today I did the "mistake" of re-emerging |
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> (emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend |
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> ) x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 as a result of a changed USE-flag |
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> (GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE). Now when I try to do a new |
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> emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend |
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> I am getting a lot of blocked packages and emerge also wants to pull in a |
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> lot of new packages. Here is a part of the output of the emerge....: |
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> |
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> [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking |
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> x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3) |
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[SNIP] |
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> I have ">x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8" in /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> as I could not make my Laptop, with an ATI-videocard, work with the new |
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> modular X. |
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> Any suggestions on how to solve this? |
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Well, my suggestion would be to remove the mask and upgrade to modular |
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xorg-x11. It won't be long before monolithic X will be unsupported and |
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removed from the tree... My ATI video card works just fine with modular X. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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