On January 10, 2005 02:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > 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? > > I don't believe anyone has mentioned it, but license issues that made > Gentoo move from xfree86 to xorg don't stop you from using the sources > or binaries from the xfree project. I've used these successfully, > although not recently and I've never tried it on a Gentoo box.
o i have no interest in upgrading, and have no issues with the fact that gentoo wants to move to xorg as the standard. but until xorg has support for things like my videocard (not all that old) i find it hard to swallow that gentoo would drop support for the old (gpl-friendly) version. I'll try all of your other suggestions tonight and see if they work. thanks so much for your input thus far. -- leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - dwight d. eisenhower -- [email protected] mailing list
