The issue isn't just with X-org. I'll try Justin's suggestion as soon as I get a chance. Per X.org though, I was trying to follow one of the HOWTO's on it...I'll have to try that out as well though after regenerating the world file.
Thanks! Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:28:42 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 Installation Question... On Monday 29 September 2008 15:15:33 BRM wrote: > I took the dive on my laptop this weekend and installed Gentoo 2008.0. I > started Friday night and used the stage3 and latest-portage. The initial > install when okay, until I started emerging applications - specifically X > windows/KDE/etc; and that is the point I am still working on. > > The problem seems to be that emerge/portage is not detecting dependencies > correctly, or rather - a dependency says it is installed but the ebuilds > for other packages that depend on it do not find the files it supposedly > installed. For example, I have had to manually emerge nearly all the X > protocol (e.g. xproto, xkbproto, etc.) packages. > > I've installed several other gentoo systems, but not with 2008.0 directly > like this - my last two were installed under 2007.0 and upgraded to 2008.0 > profiles. The only bug reports I come across seem to indicate broken > e-builds, but that does seem to be the case as "emerge --search <program>" > indicates it is installed when in fact it might not be which leads me to > believe that the local portage database (?) is somehow broken or > something... No, the portage tree is just fine. Sounds like you emerged xorg-server, which gives you the ... Xorg Server :-) To get everything else, you should have installed the xorg-x11 package. It's a -meta package whose sole purpose is to install a bunch of other packages. To check if your portage tree is wonky, run emerge --sync -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
