when Gnome 2.6 comes out...

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asiobob · Post by **asiobob** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:59 am

when Gnome 2.6 comes out after I emerge it will it get rid of my current gnome 2.4.2? or will it stick it somewhere else? If so how do I know what packages of 2.4 to remove?

joem · Post by **joem** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:10 am

It will replace all of your gnome related packages. The only thing that gets slotted is gstreamer.

asiobob · Post by **asiobob** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:58 am

say I'm in Gnome 2.4 whilst 2.6 packages are compiling. Say the panel completes and I load a new instance of a panel, will it freak out cause it may not be compatible with the other yet to be merged packages? or shouldn't this sorta thing be a problem

Spawn of Lovechild · Post by **Spawn of Lovechild** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:05 pm

ASIO_BOB wrote:say I'm in Gnome 2.4 whilst 2.6 packages are compiling. Say the panel completes and I load a new instance of a panel, will it freak out cause it may not be compatible with the other yet to be merged packages? or shouldn't this sorta thing be a problem

All those apps are presistent in RAM after being loaded. You will need to log out and back in to get to 2.6 bliss. This might cause some problems wilth gdm, but then it should just spawn a new copy to kill the old one.

No worries.

However if you load a 2.6 panel fx. it should just load since you have the needed libs compiled - both gtk2.2 and gtk2.4 should be loaded in RAM in such a case.

kongit · Post by **kongit** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:32 pm

Actually I tried a somewhat similar operation in a different distro. What happens is that not all parts are loaded in ram. Therefor if the part has been changed and it tries to load it will try to load other newer parts as well. That made my nautilas and panel freakout and eventually die. This was with ximian desktop unstable on suse. Ximian desktop unstable was exactly that unstable. I personally suggest that you stick with gnome 2.4 until gnome 2.6 is officially released. (hopefully soon)

joem · Post by **joem** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:55 pm

kongit wrote:Actually I tried a somewhat similar operation in a different distro. What happens is that not all parts are loaded in ram. Therefor if the part has been changed and it tries to load it will try to load other newer parts as well. That made my nautilas and panel freakout and eventually die. This was with ximian desktop unstable on suse. Ximian desktop unstable was exactly that unstable. I personally suggest that you stick with gnome 2.4 until gnome 2.6 is officially released. (hopefully soon)

Not quite true. Nautilus and gnome-panel will run fine because they and their libraries have already been loaded. If nautilus happens to crash, or more like when nautilus does crash..it will try and respawn and that would launch the newer version of nautilus.

kongit · Post by **kongit** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:02 pm

that is probably what happened. nautilus most likely crashed. anyway it worked after I rebooted.

maxcow · Post by **maxcow** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:56 pm

If so how do I know what packages of 2.4 to remove?

I believe there is only one package that isn't upgraded because it's no longer used: acme (because it's now integrated).

so, when you're done emerging gnome 2.6, do:

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emerge -C acme