On 07/17/2016 12:05 AM, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > what is the reason for this: > > box:/root>emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --tree --keep-going --backtrack=30 --exclude media-video/nvidia-settings --exclude app-misc/screen --exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers @world -v > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/cross-armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi: > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > Nothing to merge; quitting. > > box:/root>eix nvidia-drivers > [U] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers > Available versions: [M]96.43.23-r1(0/96)^msd [M]173.14.39-r1(0/173)^msd 304.131(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r1(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r4(0/304)^md 340.93-r1(0/340)^msd 340.96(0/340)^msd (~)340.96-r5(0/340)^md 346.96-r1(0/346)^msd (~)346.96-r6(0/346)^md 352.63(0/352)^msd 352.79(0/352)^msd (~)352.79-r4(0/352)^md (~)355.00.27(0/355.00)^fmd 355.11-r2(0/355)^msd (~)355.11-r4(0/355)^md 358.16-r1(0/358)^msd (~)358.16-r5(0/358)^md 361.28(0/361)^msd (~)361.28-r2(0/361)^md (~)361.42(0/361)^md (~)361.45.11(0/361.45)^md (~)361.45.18(0/361.45)^md (~)364.12-r1(0/364)^md (~)364.15(0/364)^md (~)364.19(0/364)^md (~)367.18(0/367)^md (~)367.27(0/367)^md (~)367.35(0/367)^md {+X acpi compat custom-cflags +driver gtk gtk2 gtk3 +kms multilib pax_kernel static-libs (+)tools uvm wayland KERNEL="FreeBSD linux"} > Installed versions: 367.27^md(22:10:56 07/12/16)(X driver kms multilib uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools -wayland KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD") > Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx > Description: NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver > > box:/root> > > > Emerge says: Nothing to merge, while eix marks nvidia-drivers as > updateable.... > > The oracle has spoken to me ... > > > Hmmm.... > > > Best regards, > Meino > > > > You explicitly told emerge not to update nvidia-drivers ("--exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"), and emerge is doing exactly what you told it to -- not updating nvidia-drivers. If you were to remove the "--exclude" parts of your emerge command line, you might see different results. -- Jonathan Callen