> > 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... >
There is a lot of difference between ~x86 and -*. The ~x86 can be considered alpha or beta. But the -* can be considered - will clobber your system, doesn't even work on the Dev's system, and is really unsafe. The previous ebuild - xorg-x11-6.8.1.902.ebuild, would have worked for you. But the -r1 wasn't even complete. Looking at a diff between the two ebuilds shows a lot of missing checks and the use multilib - > setup_multilib So it looks like the Dev was re-writing the script to take into account the switch to multilib on amd64 and testing that out. The rest of the archs would then be added back in after the work for multilib was done. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
