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) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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