Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > Restoring from backup should always be the last resort, because i backup filesystems and not packages. If i restore single files i can no longer be sure if they are still consistent with the rest of the new xorg. Anyway, you did not answer my question: Why not make font-server the default? What's the use in seperating it at all? This really seems to me a pointless change that only breaks existing setups.
Also, emerge --verbose --ask only help if you know what you are looking for. I porbably would have overlooked the "-font-server" especially when upgrading lots of packages. Regards, Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341 -- [email protected] mailing list
