On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 12:34 -0700, don wrote: > I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. > I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. > > However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list > here. > > Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version > that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I > would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove > a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). > > Thanks > Don Reid
Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say "emerge -av xorg-x11"? That should downgrade everything that needs to be downgraded... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
