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Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan |
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Gottlieb did opine thusly: |
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> Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a |
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> downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated |
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> a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1. |
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> Thus my emerges now generate msgs that updates to xorg-server and xinit |
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> are being skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies. |
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> Other than this, the emerges perform normally and the system runs well. |
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> I could mask the newer versions of xorg-server and xinit and possibly |
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> prevent the emerge messages, but I am leaning toward leaving it as it is. |
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> This way when mesa is updated (to a hopefully fixed version) everything |
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> should update automatically. |
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> Does that sound reasonable. |
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Yes, that will work fine. You'll just have to tolerate those messages in the |
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interim, but you know they are there and why. Nothing will break because of |
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it. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |