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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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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