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 1G3RQL-00016W-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:50:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6K5n5rZ000653; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:49:05 GMT Received: from puchmayr.linznet.at (puchmayr.linznet.at [80.66.46.165]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6K5iOne013991 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:44:24 GMT Received: (qmail 20353 invoked by uid 210); 20 Jul 2006 07:44:24 +0200 Received: from 192.168.1.2 by hephaestos (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (f-prot: 4.6.3/3.16.10. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.2):. Processed in 0.963071 secs); 20 Jul 2006 05:44:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zeus.puchmayr1.linznet.at) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2006 07:44:23 +0200 From: Alexander Puchmayr To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:44:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200607190651.03398.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <200607200629.59783.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <44BF0D09.1040709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44BF0D09.1040709@gmail.com> Organization: Fa Linznet 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607200744.21927.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> X-Archives-Salt: 39738c72-bd7e-4d10-9473-3001a655e4cc X-Archives-Hash: c2c998a5af5b06d9f08683dceefe81ec Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 06:56 schrieb Ryan Tandy: > Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Well, I think I got the conecpt behind meta packages. My question was > > why do I get a different content of the VIDEO_CARDS-variable when I > > specify "-k" in emerge or not??? > > You can't change the USE flags a binary package was built with. Binary > packages are built with a certain set of flags, and they're stuck with > that set of flags until you recompile the whole thing. > OK, thats pretty obvious. > I'd recommend you emerge --nodeps xorg-x11 in order to change its > USEflags to the ones you want (no compilation necessary), and then > emerge -k to pull in the binary packages depended on by its new flags, > which will save you the compiling time. > > HTH. Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown in the list, and VIDEO_CARDS did not show the same content as without -k. Greetings, Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list