Simon Strandman posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:37:42 +0200:
> Donnie Berkholz skrev: > >> The first release candidate was announced roughly 12 hours ago. And >> fitting the Gentoo you know as up to the minute, so far beyond the >> bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid before it starts to bleed, >> comes the complete package in Portage -- all 296 packages worth. > > Will you add a ebuild for the 6.9-RC1 release also, or will gentoo go > completely for the modular tree? Donnie mentioned some weeks/months ago here on dev, when discussing the move to modular, that Gentoo would be going totally modular. It fits with the way Gentoo does things, allowing folks to avoid installing what they don't need, AND the 6.9 monolithic release has been announced as basically the end of the monolithic line upstream, so we'd have to move to it eventually in any case. Note that even the monolithic X ebuilds have had a couple modules split out, for some time, xterm's the example I remember. That's why... if you've been following, there hasn't been anything beyond the monolithic 6.8.99.15 snapshot in portage, as work had switched to modular, altho .15 has had a few -rX releases. FWIW, I tried unmasking the modular ebuilds and merging using Donnie's HOWTO, as posted here earlier, but while it all compiled, something wasn't right and X wouldn't launch. I never had time to track it down, tho I really wanted to get it running as I've been hacking up the monolithic ebuilds to remove stuff I didn't want, for some time, so the best I've been able to do is run those .15 monolithic snapshots mentioned earlier. (It's quite possible the issue was related to gcc4 or the masked binutils and glibc I'm running in relation to that, or it could have been that in combination with my arch, amd64, or... it could have been just my particular installation...) I'm currently in the middle of compiling KDE-3.5.0-beta2, which is out, and will probably take a couple days to recuperate after that before attempting modular-X again. However, it's a pretty safe bet I'll be trying it before the end of next week! -- 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
