XFCE4: Issues with Gentoo

Alexander J Pierce apierce at boi.hp.com
Fri Apr 8 17:04:47 CEST 2005


Wouldn't harm it at all.  At least, I am having no problems with it.
Gentoo 2005.0 w/ ~x86 keyword.

The xfce4-base package is the only ebuild issue I have ever noticed on
gentoo.  all the other ebuilds (including those under xfce-extra) seem
to work just fine.

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:58 -0300, Romeu Fonseca wrote:
> Thank you buddies... now everything is working fine! Kristy, I have
> updated my whole system yesterday, running stable and fast... :)
> 
> I´m just wondering if I emerge xfce-themes (marked as 4.0.6), it would
> mess with the rest... any tips?
> 
> 
> Romeu
> 
> 
> On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 AM, Kristy Christie <kristy at isp7.net> wrote:
> > Hi Romeu,
> > 
> > I actually recently updated to Gentoo 2005.0 with XFCE.
> > 
> > Which package did you emerge for XFCE? I used "emerge xfce4" and it emerged
> > XFCE 4.2.0.. I haven't had any trouble with missing themes or anything.
> > And, when
> > I do emerge -p world, it doesn't try to downgrade XFCE.
> > 
> > There seems to be an older version of XFCE available and it gets
> > installed when you
> > emerge "xfce4-base". So check your /var/lib/portage/world to see if
> > that's the package
> > that was used to install XFCE instead of just "xfce4".
> > 
> > 
> > ~Kristy
> > 
> > >Hello all, anyone here uses Gentoo? I´m having some problems to emerge
> > >xfce4 related ebuilds... Well, in fact, I used to modify
> > >packages.unmask to emerge some masked xfce ebuilds and now, when I try
> > >an "emerge world", the system wants to downgrade XFCE4 from 4.2 to
> > >4.0.6... And more, it says that the xfce4.0.6 ebuild is blocking the
> > >other stuff... I dunno what I can do to fix it...
> > >
> > >Just one more question, is XFCE4.2 working with all themes and
> > >functionalities?? In mine, it´s missing some icons and some themes
> > >simply does not work...
> > >
> > >
> > >Best regards ppl, Romeu
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> > >
> > >
> > 
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