On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:55, Hamish Marson wrote:
> Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old
> working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I can't do that any more.
> And makes debugging problems a real pain.
Also (though it's not quite as fast) if you don't like the pr
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Hamish wrote:
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> Yeah. Again too many places to make changes, it doesn't lend itself to
> swapping back & forth. Shame many other packages have the concept of multiple
> versions. I'm not sure why X should be treated differently.
Slotting versions
On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:41, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it not possible to install the CVS version to /usr/local/X11R6, and
> > then create a /etc/env.d/00X-cvs file to specify that
> > /usr/local/X11R6/bin should appear first in the path?
>
On 6/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it not possible to install the CVS version to /usr/local/X11R6, and
then create a /etc/env.d/00X-cvs file to specify that
/usr/local/X11R6/bin should appear first in the path?
Actually it looks like you would need to modify /etc/profile or
On 6/29/06, Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(The reason I want multiple versions is for when I raise a problem
with the XOrg developers for a problem not directly gentoo's, quite
often they want you to try the CVS version... previously you could
alter the prefix & just move a symlink...
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Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:55:07 +0100 Hamish Marson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that
>> you want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under
>> /usr?
>>
Hi,
Maybe you could just build xorg-server as a package without installing
it and then use the redirection facilities of tar to unpack the
packages in the directory you like.
The drawback is that you won't be able to automatically upgrade
xorg-server through portage, I suppose ...
I'm surprised
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:55:07 +0100
Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you
> want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr?
>
> Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old
> working e
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Is there anyway to specify to the gentoo xorg-server package that you
want it installed in /usr/X11R6 once more instead of under /usr?
Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old
working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I can
