The question of when Xfce 4.4 will be unmasked has been coming up with increasing frequency.<\/p>\n
The default answer is… wait, for it, when it’s ready :>><\/p>\n
A more elaborate answer follows:<\/p>\n
We have established a ‘tracker’ bug here<\/a>. The team has been pretty good about keeping on top of bugs that come up with it, as in, there are no known issues currently.<\/p>\n So that means it’s ready, right? Not quite. Below are the outstanding issues I see:<\/p>\n In making haste to get a 0-day release of 4.4, some corners may have been cut. In particular, some of the xfce-extra packages are lacking the appropriate keywords, even though xfce-base\/xfce4-extras depend on them. This is only for new xfce-extra packages, which have been added only relatively recently.<\/p>\n Icons seemed to have moved around a bit, as in, which packages owns them. This is a bit problematic, as it causes file collisions (enabled by FEATURES=”collision-protect”). While not critical to unmasking, it is pretty key for stabilizing, and the sooner it can be fixed the better.<\/p>\n The other things I’m concerned about is the upgrade path from 4.2 to 4.4. Some things that were extras in 4.2 are now part of 4.4. As a result, some xfce-extra packages have blockers against them. In other cases, xfce-extra packages haven’t been updated for 4.4, or otherwise are no longer maintained. These xfce-extra packages have blockers against them as well. The consequence of these point is that you will have to unmerge the packages that are reported as being blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The question of when Xfce 4.4 will be unmasked has been coming up with increasing frequency. The default answer is… wait, for it, when it’s ready :>> A more elaborate answer follows: We have established a ‘tracker’ bug here. The team has been pretty good about keeping on top of bugs that come up with … Continue reading unmask teh Xfce!!!one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/nichoj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}