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