yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X.
BillK On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 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 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
