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On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 08:41, wkuz@××.pl <wkuz@××.pl> wrote: |
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> Hello everyone! |
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> Upon upgrade, portage told me that x11-base/xorg-x11 is masked and will |
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> be removed from the repo on November 1st. I thought "ok, why not do it |
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> now", so I have typed: |
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> # emerge -W x11-base/xorg-x11 |
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> # emerge -cav |
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> and there was a surprise (not a pleasant one). Since xorg-x11 is a |
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> metapackage it pulled so many things I would like to have still here. |
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> Is there any reasonable way to put all those packages to my world file, |
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> so I can easily remove xorg-x11 without deleting half of my desktop |
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> apps? |
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Are you sure that you would miss any of them? From the lists on the |
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bugs posted by Holger here, it seems like most of it are small |
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specialised tools used for specific needs. If you don't know that you |
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explicitly use them, you probably don't. |
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The proposed meta package for the to-be-removed fonts is a different |
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matter, but I don't know how much use those fonts get in practice, |
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might be worth following that bug for info. |
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Regards, |
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Arve |