On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:41:13 -0500 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| This is the first xorg release, in fact first ebuild ever, that was so
| poorly constructed as to start spawning shell processes to the point
| of total system lockup.
| 
| I've been running the "-* ~x86" releases of xorg since I did the setup
| of the system and this has never been an issue before.
| 
| Yes, I know the doco says that "~x86" could introduce a package that
| may break the system, but to doco never says that "~x86" will lock up
| your system just for trying to emerge it...

Uhm, the ebuild's -*, not ~x86. -* means "doesn't work on anything".

So, you told portage to install an ebuild which is explicitly marked as
broken on every arch, and you're whining because it broke?

--  Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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