On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

> Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After
> upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30
> diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs.

Surely with such an important system, you keep backups 9or binary
packages) of everything. If so, simply switch back to the old version
before recompiling with the appropriate flags.

Not only should you keep backups of your packages, you should also
inspect the output of emerge --verbose --ask before committing to a
build.


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