Hello,

Is there a easy way to make a sort of list so I know which packages need to be unmask so I can install these packages ?

Roelof

gentoo user? emerge --pretend? should give you the list I think

Try app-portage/autounmask

Hello,

Autounmask unmasked a lot of 999 packages so Everything messed up.
The same for the pretend.

Roelof

You must understand, if a package is masked, there is generally a good reason for it. Gnome-2.30 is new and in testing, and I think that xorg is too. The best way is to emerge each one seperately and investigate the masks and the reasons. If you try and just skip a bunch of steps and ignore warnings in gentoo, you're going to hose your system pretty quick.

I am running gnome 2.30 from overlay. On my installation it is quite stable. In fact not got any errors so far in the month or so I have been using it.

I haven't tried xorg-server 1.8 series yet.

I would try one at the time. If you are already on xorg-server 1.7.6 (the latest stable) stay on that first. I installed Gnome 2.30 this way.

If, after that all is well and you still want to update to xorg 1.8, set the a global useflag: -hal. Then unmask xorg-server 1.8 and install it. You would probably want to do a world update after that (e.g. emerge -DNuva world), to rebuild anything that have used hal.

Good luck.

Mons