Summary: | Upgrade documentation for gnome 2.6.10 would be nice | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 91329 |
Description
Petteri Räty (RETIRED)
2005-05-02 12:49:04 UTC
blocks are a part of Gentoo, learn what they are and how to deal with them from the docs. While foser is absolutely right, I sent a mail to the gentoo-desktop list explaining the changes in 2.10 and the reasons behind them. I agree that dealing with blocks are part of Gentoo, but I don't see how a normal user would be aware if it's safe to unmerge gnome-themes while gnome is running. Unlike KDE the GNOME upgrade isn't slotted so it's probably not a wise idea to do it while GNOME is running. IMO many users will probably do their upgrade in gnome-terminal. I am not a GNOME user so I am not the foremost expert on this subject. As I said in the original bug report, documentation at this moment this not mandatory but before going stable it is probably a good idea. I find Comment #1 a bit harsh: blocks may be part of portage, but they are not generally what you expect to happen when you are upgrading from (say) gnome 2.8 to 2.10. There might well be good reasons for it, but user/admin friendly it isn't. Blocks are not particularly common - a casual Gentoo user might not even have come across them before - as far as I can tell, this block will hit *everybody* who has gnome installed. It's fine to say "they should learn", but in this particular case the block only exists because of a portage limitation. Anyway, with regards to Comment #3: I unmerged gnome-themes whilst running gnome. Apart from changes to icons etc when I changed desktops, it was pretty much ok. I did make sure I could keep the system running until the emerge of gnome had finished. |