daniel wrote:
i can't be the first person to have this problem, but i NEED xfree on this machine. i've upgraded every other box to xorg, but this one can't be. i need xfree because it's the only windowing system that plays nice with the gatos ati drivers for my tv card. ...and i'm not about to boot to windows to watch tv.
so how do i just tell gentoo not to try to upgrade me? is the following my only choice? is it a good one?
# emerge --inject x11-base/x11-xorg
this has been deprecated:
# mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile/ # echo x11-base/x11-xorg-6.9.0 >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
should be the right one (if there is one ;)
why is it that xfree had to be removed but other stuff that most people never touch (like kdrive) is still in there? am i the only one that's upset and thinks this is nuts?There is a controversy on the "Version 1.1 of XFree86� Project Licence.".
Quite all mayor distro has abandoned it, never understud *really*, in every case if nothing change it is destined at die fast die.
Try to follow the following hierarchy, it will help to coexist in the future:
/usr
/usr/X11R6
/usr/X11R6/include
/usr/X11R6/include/X11
/usr/X11R6/bin
/usr/include
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/X11
/usr/lib/X11/config
/usr/lib/X11/locale
/usr/lib/X11/x11perfcomp
/usr/lib/X11/xedit
/usr/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/lib/X11/etc
/usr/lib/X11/getconfig
/usr/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/lib/misc
/usr/lib/modules
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/lib/opengl
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-6.8.1.901
/usr/share/cursors
/usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/man
/usr/bin
/etc
/etc/X11
/etc/init.d
/etc/profile.d
/var/lib/xdm
/var/lib/xkb
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