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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 |
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Graham Murray wrote: |
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> "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au> writes: |
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> > yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg |
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> > modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless |
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> > you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed |
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> > because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually |
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> > updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had |
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> > an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade |
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> > from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X. |
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> Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal |
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> of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages |
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> which it caused to be installed. |
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ummmm think about this. |
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new system, no gui installed. |
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I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. |
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I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, |
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because it is already installed. |
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I decide I do not want kde because i prefer gnome. I unsinstall |
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kde-meta. Under your scheme it would also uninstall xorg-x11. But that |
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is not what you want! |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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