• [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 masked

    From wkuz@op.pl@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 4 08:50:01 2022
    Hello everyone!
    Upon upgrade, portage told me that x11-base/xorg-x11 is masked and will
    be removed from the repo on November 1st. I thought "ok, why not do it
    now", so I have typed:
    # emerge -W x11-base/xorg-x11
    # emerge -cav
    and there was a surprise (not a pleasant one). Since xorg-x11 is a
    metapackage it pulled so many things I would like to have still here.
    Is there any reasonable way to put all those packages to my world file,
    so I can easily remove xorg-x11 without deleting half of my desktop
    apps?

    Thanks in advance, have a good day!

    --
    xWK

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  • From Arve Barsnes@21:1/5 to wkuz@op.pl on Tue Oct 4 10:10:01 2022
    On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 08:41, wkuz@op.pl <wkuz@op.pl> wrote:

    Hello everyone!
    Upon upgrade, portage told me that x11-base/xorg-x11 is masked and will
    be removed from the repo on November 1st. I thought "ok, why not do it
    now", so I have typed:
    # emerge -W x11-base/xorg-x11
    # emerge -cav
    and there was a surprise (not a pleasant one). Since xorg-x11 is a metapackage it pulled so many things I would like to have still here.
    Is there any reasonable way to put all those packages to my world file,
    so I can easily remove xorg-x11 without deleting half of my desktop
    apps?

    Are you sure that you would miss any of them? From the lists on the
    bugs posted by Holger here, it seems like most of it are small
    specialised tools used for specific needs. If you don't know that you explicitly use them, you probably don't.

    The proposed meta package for the to-be-removed fonts is a different
    matter, but I don't know how much use those fonts get in practice,
    might be worth following that bug for info.

    Regards,
    Arve

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