Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > When user upgrades to modular X.org there is a block that requires him to > remove xorg-x11-6.8*. Then the user upgrades, reboots and finds out there is > something wrong. So he downgrades. But when downgrading there is no block > requiring him to remove modular X first. So he merges xorg-x11-6.8 which > overwrites a *LOT* of modular X files like e.g. startx and only unmerges > xorg-x11-7.0 which is a very small package. Now the user decides to upgrade > again so he unmerges xorg-x11-6.8 again and it removes all the files but > portage still thinks modular X is installed except of xorg-x11-7*. So when he > emerges xorg-x11-7* that package is the only one which is remerged...
That's a definite possibility. But I don't _think_ everyone encountering this problem has hit it, although I could be wrong. Thanks, Donnie
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