On 9/29/06, John Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Recently I went to emerge ipodder, a program I've never used before but
was interested in trying out. Unfortunately it had a dependency on
pythonwx >= version 2.6, which in turn had a dependency on wxGTK >= version
2.6,
which in turn wanted me to upgrade my entire Xorg installation... (I'm
runnig 6.9). Not particularly wanting to do this, I hacked my way
around it. (seems it works just fine with wxGTK/wxpython 2.4, which
required no Xorg upgrade).
But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However,
when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of
"Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. I was thinking that
emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade -
that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went
along.
The Modulas X upgrade is not that simple, its a change on the whole
structure of Xorg, not only a source code upgrade with few
implications, it also requires some configuration and attention in
order to make your X system run after the upgrade.
Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
(and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it,
naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I
believe?). Or is there a better way?
You'll find the "Modular X HOWTO" at Gentoo Docs. It is pretty intersting!
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