On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:25 +0300, Timur Aydin wrote: > I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent > updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the > problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I > downgraded to version 7.7.1 and my desktop works great again. > > Now I want to prevent mesa from being updated until this issue is sorted > out upstream. I have looked at package.provide, but that didn't work. > Currently, I have placed media-libs/mesa into my > /etc/portage/package.mask file and this seems to do the trick. Is this > the recommended way for handling this situation?
package.mask is the right place, but you should add the specific version. Then the system will only upgrade when a newer (hopefully fixed) version arrives. =media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 -- Neil Bothwick WindowError:01B Illegal error. Do NOT get this error.
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