Sebastian Redl posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:09:27 +0100:
> Francesco Talamona wrote: > >>I also made a little script to help unmask all the packages needed, >>anyway it is a process quite tedious :-) >> >> > Care to share? It is indeed quite tedious. Umm... xorg-x11-7.0 has been out for some time, altho it's still currently masked as there remain around 400 packages that don't have their dependencies set up correctly for modular X. The latest GWN (see the Gentoo.org website for regular issues, but this one linked below) has links to the relevant threads on the dev list, and a list (updated ~daily) of the packages (mostly games) that still need the deps changed. There's also an official modular-X migration HOWTO, linked in GWN, but I'll link it below as well. Going by it should be MUCH safer, and reduce the tedium of all those unmasks, as it's done in a single step, no script required. (Hint, simply take the list from the main package.mask file and copy it to your local package.unmask file, no tedious unmasking one-at-a-time required!) A special warning for those that are running a stable system with certain unstable packages, however! Many of the packages that have already had deps migrated have ONLY had them migrated in the latest ~arch versions! If you are running a mostly stable amd64 system, there are MANY MORE packages that won't have updated deps, probably closer to 1000 packages, including many you likely have merged. Putting the still masked xorg-7.0 on such a system is pretty much /begging/ for trouble! xorg-x11-7.0 is headed for the move to ~arch, certainly, and as such, is being actively supported in terms of bug reports and the like for ~arch users. However, I would **NOT** recommend that regular/stable arch users try it, as you could be in for some rather serious instability if you do, and presumably, arch users don't want that. As a base ~arch user here, running various still masked packages including gcc-4.0.2 and gcc-4.1.0-snapshots, I've been running xorg-x11-7.0 for some time now, with little problem. I even compiled it with gcc-4.1.0! However, I'm not running anything still on the dep-unported list, the plurality (~120 packages IIRC) of which are games, and my entire system is at least ~amd64, if not even still-masked due to bleeding-edgeness stuff. Again, I'd actively discourage anyone running stable arch from trying xorg-x11-7.0 at this point, as you will very likely find problems you have expressed an interest in /not/ dealing with, given your choice of stable. Those with a heavy gaming interest may also wish to wait, as there remain quite a few dep-unported gaming packages. That migration HOWTO: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml GWN coverage (slightly outdated even as it was released, but still quite informative): http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060130-newsletter.xml -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
