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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: richard.j.fish@×××××.com |
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> [mailto:richard.j.fish@×××××.com] On Behalf Of Richard Fish |
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> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:06 PM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want to upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0 |
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> On 4/6/06, Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > server portage # cat /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> > =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 |
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> You did the opposite of what you wanted to do...you masked out only |
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> the current 6.8 version. What you want is: |
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> >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7 |
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> However, I doubt there will be any more releases of 6.x. You may also |
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> find yourself masking out more and more parts of the modular X tree. |
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> If you want to keep updating this system, avoiding modular X is going |
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> to be more and more difficult. |
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Well. The server is critical. I can't have that be down, so I'm fine with |
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leaving X6 for now till X7 is figured out or whatever. I'm in no rush. But |
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it was preventing me from doing an "emerge -Davu world" to see what else I |
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might need (such as the new rails) |
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> BTW, did you happen to try the open-source nv driver on your laptop? |
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No. I haven't had time to mess around with X7 on my notebook. I get so |
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frustrated with Linux sometimes. I swear I'm on the verge of getting a Mac |
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Pro (now that you can dual boot XP/OSX) |
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