On 21 Apr 2009, at 08:17, KH wrote:
...
I did the same error once and I had been told that it can be
unpleasing
to downgrade a large amount of programs. So back then I followed
another
approach. I put every single packed which was on ~x86 in my keywords
file. Than I changed my make.conf back to stable. This way my box was
slowly coming back to stable without the need to downgrade any
program.
I took maybe around one year until I was able to remove the last
line in
the keywords file but I still think this is the best way to deal
with a
case like that.
So answer to your question: I say it is expected behavior to run in
trouble when downgrading a large amount of programs. I wouldn't
consider
this to be a bug.
+1
This is what I'd do.
I don't know if it's totally clear from KH's description: you mask all
lower versions of packages than the currently installed version.
Stroller.
