On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:34 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and
> promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have
> ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers.
They are correct. In the ebuild for ati-drivers-3.14.6 is this depend:
DEPEND="|| ( <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99 >=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 )"
> I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another
> emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go
> through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do
> to stop it?
ati-drivers will not stop xorg 6.8 from installing. It will pull it back
to 6.7 on the next pass though. Presumably, ati-drivers will offer a
version at some point that will support xorg 6.8, so it won't flip-flop
*forever*.
You have a few choices, including:
1. remove ati-drivers and stay with xorg 6.8. wait for a new ati-drivers
that works with 6.8 to reinstall it.
2. add ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8" to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent
the 6.8 upgrade from happening, and remove it once a newer ati-drivers
is available.
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