On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > "W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal > of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages > which it caused to be installed.
ummmm think about this. new system, no gui installed. I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, because it is already installed. I decide I do not want kde because i prefer gnome. I unsinstall kde-meta. Under your scheme it would also uninstall xorg-x11. But that is not what you want! > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
