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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dan Armak wrote:
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:24, Ferris McCormick wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:48 +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
Don't post such questions here. Go to the gentoo-user mailing list, the
forums, or irc. This list is for discussion of Gentoo development.
Actually, this is a discussion of X-modular, and up to now, all
X-modular posts have come here (it is very much a -dev issue; the
X-modular suite is masked, unless something has changed quite recently.)
It was a matter of misunderstanding emerge output (block by <xorg-x11-7, and
the OP apparently missed the <). Thus nothing to do with the modular X. It
was also crossposted to gentoo-user. IMHO mostly any question about using
portage correctly, which is suitable to gentoo-user, is not suitable to
gentoo-dev.
Well, maybe so. However that missing '<' is kind of important, and when
playing with X-modular, the portage output really looks like the modular
packages are blocking the non-existent xorg-x11-7. It's not a "matter of
using portage correctly" because portage is misreporting the (phantom)
problem.
As I recall, it looks like this (for example):
x11-base/xorg-server-xxx [B x11-base/xorg-x11-7]
which without that little '<' is, shall we say, wrong. Since (so far as I
know) it arises only in the X-modular context, this is the right place for
the question. (With '<' it's true but irrelevant, but portage is being
misled into believing xorg-x11 is required. R. Hill addressed that issue in
another post.)
Or maybe it arises elsewhere too?
Maybe I was too harsh in the tone of my reply. If so I
apologize.
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Regards,
Ferris
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