Pete Pardoe wrote: > I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back > but I > now have a problem that has me stumped.
You filed a bug for the failure, right? Monolithic X won't be around forever ... > When I do an emerge -puD world > there are a whole slew of packages that are blocked by a non existant > package. I have xorg-x11 6.8.2-r8 installed not 6.9 but get the following > in front of all the blocked packages. How do I convince the system that it > doesn't have this package installed. > > <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking > > I have tried emerge --clean x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and emerge --prune > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there. > I have done a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --newuse --update --deep world > and nothing has fixed it. You may not realize "<=" means "less than or equal to," so your 6.8 installation would qualify. If you want Gentoo to stop asking you to upgrade to the current stable modular X every time you 'emerge world' then you may want to add '>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7' to /etc/portage/package.mask. Thanks, Donnie
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