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

[w***@op.pl]

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!

[Holger Hoffstätte]

Post by w***@op.pl
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
# 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?

Please see discussions in:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/872119
https://bugs.gentoo.org/873973

cheers,
Holger

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by w***@op.pl
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
# 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