Here's the note I plan to send out about modular X to GWN, -announce, forums, and wherever else I can think of. I'd appreciate a quick look-over and suggestion of other places to put it. Also, who should I talk to if I want to get this posted to -announce?
Thanks, Donnie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Modular X entering ~arch Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:39:09 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The X team members plan to remove all 289 modular X packages from package.mask on Wednesday, 25 January. They will enter ~arch (testing) for all the architectures for which they're keyworded: alpha, amd64, arm, ia64, mips, ppc, sh, sparc and x86. To learn how to upgrade properly, read the migration guide <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml> before starting the upgrade. It discusses how the USE flags changed, why X.Org went modular and why `emerge xorg-x11` won't be quite enough yet. Not all packages in the tree will work with modular X when it enters ~arch, although the most common applications already do. The X team encourages users and developers to contribute fixes to their favorite packages by reading the porting guide <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/porting-modular-x-howto.xml>. Applications requiring the most work include games and packages without a listed maintainer in metadata.xml or altogether lacking metadata. Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provides a list of all unported applications along with their maintainers, updated daily, in his webspace <http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/broken_modular/>. A graph of porting progress exists in the same location. If you encounter any bugs with the migration, please report them at Gentoo's Bugzilla <https://bugs.gentoo.org/>. If you have any changes to the above, please let me know so I can make sure they get propagated to other announcement channels as well. Thanks, Donnie
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