Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> I'm having a terrible time figuring this out. xorg-server-1.5 has >>> totally broken my wife's machine in terms of the one thing she wants >>> for fun which is MythTV. I need to take the machine back to the >>> previous version of xorg-server but so far I Cannot figure out what to >>> remove with emerge -C and what to mask to get this to work. >>> >>> Can someone better than I please tell me what to do here? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I'm not better but I did the same thing on my rig. I hope this will help. >> >> # ######## xorg-server masking ######### >> >>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r4 >>> >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 >> =x11-proto/printproto-1.0.4 >> =x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 >> =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 >> >> Just put that in your package.mask file and run emerge -uvDNa world. >> >> Dale >> >> > > Thanks Dale. I was about half way through getting the same list. This > will save a lot of time. > > I apprecaite your help, > Mark > > >
No problem. Just because I had to do it the hard way, one at a time, doesn't mean everybody else should have to to. We have autounmask, maybe we need automask too? It's a thought. Dale :-) :-)
