[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. > > xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. > > If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have > xvidtune: Thanks Nick that stopped this sillyness in its tracks. Egad, once again

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > > You should, however, be fine as long as you do u

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: >> And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune >> >> I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the >> dependancies. >> >> root # equery d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:13:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > And a quite long string of package names follow including xvidtune > > I'm apparently using the wrong command to try to learn the > dependancies. > > root # equery depends x11-apps/xvidtune > [ Searching for pac

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. > > See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at > http://www.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread gentoo-user
Harry Putnam wrote: The reason has been posted in a few messages in this thread or at least in my initial post; from /usr/portage/package.mask: # Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07 Aug 2005) # Modularized X, upstream release candidates And a quite long string of package names follow incl

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? >> Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that >> message with yet another dependancy. > > You need to l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:22:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Or are you saying I need to list ever dependance in there too? > Its a very long list. I got as high as 12 and was still getting that > message with yet another dependancy. You need to list every dependency in there, but first you need to

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: >> But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up >> when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so >> far but haven't done any real installing

[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 3 13:37, Harry Putnam (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > But as I comment out the entries there are always more that turn up > when I run emerge xvidtune again. I've commented about 8 so > far but haven't done any real installing just seeing where this > goes and need some coach