On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:36:13PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version > > that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I > > would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove > > a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). > > Couldn't you just put the xorg you don't want > in /etc/portage/package.mask and then say "emerge -av xorg-x11"? That
That just complains about many packages blocking it. On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > You can get a list of all the packages at > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this: > > emerge portage-utils > emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $(< modular-x-packages.txt)) Thanks, I was afraid that unmerging X would also try to unmerge all the applications etc. that used it. I guess I was wrong. Given that, I took the list of blocking packages, and did the above with that list. Now I re-emerging the older ones. Don -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
