[gentoo-user] Re: How to mask xfce 4.8?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-01-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:

> My last update bumped XFCE to 4.8, and I quickly learned that it's
> got some serious bugs.  So, I need to roll back to whatever the
> prevous version was.  How do I tell portage to not use 4.8?
>
> I tried adding this line in /etc/portage/package.mask:
>
>  >=xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.8
>
> But that does nothing.  Do I have to individually mask all 20+
> components of XFCE?

I think XFCE 4.8 was given "stable" status prematurely.  Quoting one
of the XFCE apps when asked by a user if it was time to upgrade to
4.8:

  Although we've made a lot of development releases; during 4.8.0 the
  code gets some real testing. So unless something is 4.6 that bothers
  you is broken that should've been resolved in 4.8, it's better to
  wait a bit until 4.8.1 or .2.

Trying to roll XFCE back to a version that works is also proving to be
difficult...
  
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