From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G0fTe-0001ES-Qi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:14:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6CECbkC026780; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:12:37 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6CE4UaS001518 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:04:31 GMT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6CE4UYZ012327 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6CE4TIP019372 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E8ACD74502; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:05:23 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile Message-ID: <20060712140523.GA2021@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20060711224827.GA32071@princeton.edu> <7573e9640607111908x36bc0ecev2a9bb52a46925581@mail.gmail.com> <20060712050423.GA22078@princeton.edu> <7573e9640607112259l7a07e1e7jfc41470c9f7a1a4a@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607112259l7a07e1e7jfc41470c9f7a1a4a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: b203be6d-772d-4169-a65e-c750f65a3ef9 X-Archives-Hash: d061ea94fe035afdf1484bce82cf9a60 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 -- "One's never alone with a rubber duck. " Sortir en Pantoufles: up 20:44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list