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On Thursday, May 4 2006 8:15, Kris Kerwin wrote: |
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> I tried installing xorg 7.0, but of course, as it is masked, it didn't |
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> work. Since I'm a college student in the midst of finals, having a |
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> working graphical desktop is mission critical right now, and I don't |
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> have the time to tinker with it to get it to work. So, I reinstalled |
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> 6.8.2-r6. I did my best to remove all of the modular dependencies |
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> that 7.0 installed (this was definantly the hardest part). |
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> Now, however, whenever I try to emerge -Du world, I get warnings that |
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> various packages want to reinstall some of the dependencies from the |
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> 7.0 tree, but can't because they're masked. Unfortunately, emerge |
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> isn't very verbose, even with the -v option, and only returns one |
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> blocker at a time (instead of all of them). Here is it's output as a |
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> sample of the problem: |
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The modular X migration guide located at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml includes a |
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list of packages you may download which you add to package.keywords to unmask |
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all of the X.org 7.0 packages. The package list is here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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