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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:05:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060712140523.GA2021@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607112259l7a07e1e7jfc41470c9f7a1a4a@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> I believe adding "-video_cards_nvidia" to
> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask (notice the directory!) should do it.
> 
> But really this doesn't matter...this use flag is only used to add a
> dependancy on the nvidia drivers for xorg-x11.  Having the nvidia flag
> masked doesn't in any way prevent you from unmasking
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers, merging them, and using nvidia in
> xorg.conf.

I see, just one last question about this: so I am assuming that this
means that the use flag would allow xorg-x11 to pull in nvidia-drivers
as a dependency. All I really need to do then is to emerge
nvidia-drivers separately myself?

W
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-12 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 22:48 [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile Willie Wong
2006-07-12  2:08 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-12  2:11   ` Richard Fish
2006-07-12  5:04   ` Willie Wong
2006-07-12  5:59     ` Richard Fish
2006-07-12 14:05       ` Willie Wong [this message]
2006-07-12 16:52         ` Richard Fish

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