XFCE4: Issues with Gentoo

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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?
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xfce4-themes is not a part of xfce 4.2 (and thus the last version of it
is and will always be 4.0.6).  It was phased out during the 4.1
development cycle.  I don't recall how bcowan has the dependencies set
up in the ebuilds, but it's possible that things may get confused at
some point.

    -brian

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>Romeu
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>On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 AM, Kristy Christie <kristy at isp7.net> wrote:
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>>Hi Romeu,
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>>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
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Xfce mailing list
>>>Xfce at xfce.org
>>>http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
>>>http://www.xfce.org
>>>
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>>_______________________________________________
>>Xfce mailing list
>>Xfce at xfce.org
>>http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
>>http://www.xfce.org
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>_______________________________________________
>Xfce mailing list
>Xfce at xfce.org
>http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
>http://www.xfce.org
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