From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QjXtx-0002dV-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:37:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCAE021C369; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0C621C334 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so265230wyh.40 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:35:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=eeXzf7o8vRpxj1mfIfbFgNOhpQaQEBnmA+d4Pm5t57c=; b=IvbsGMLAG3N9ukazslh5Da4tFzBfmhHLww3ipKsGeJtpZsoIJWz/lHH5ALUfPqwGiM Lzo8kXAdC3k+2x+Em/J5Pgn5WlmotUHgan/IpeMuohAoHd+L96czBH1zhGHn7TqcsXTZ cmxuBm+FLzih9qs4rAhEJ5KpPEhyQPQ8/0U4I= Received: by 10.227.28.212 with SMTP id n20mr7661180wbc.82.1311172559416; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fe4sm240575wbb.62.2011.07.20.07.35.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:35:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:36:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201107200705.20857.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1915913.jxvbqYS2Iq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107201536.43859.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5349439401c14f1b23b861286942aba7 --nextPart1915913.jxvbqYS2Iq Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 15:16:06 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-07-20, Mick wrote: > > Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers > > (evdev being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling > > you to run > >=20 > > qfile to find what is need to be reinstalled: > > qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ >=20 > I've always wondered why, if portage knows that has to be done, can't > portage just go ahead and do it? Because as a gentoo user you may have some very good reason NOT to do it (i= =2Ee.=20 you want to only emerge certain drivers and not others, unmask and emerge=20 particular versions, etc.) Now portage could offer the choice of doing it (I have found these drivers,= =20 would sir/madam like me to remerge them?) but it could confuse newbies or h= alt=20 emerges when run on a cron job. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1915913.jxvbqYS2Iq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4m5/sACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYomgCg5Lv7IkyQ4cwQQ5B7vimL7Jxm ET8Anjh4J3xSP1UhInyXW5e6dd+iXJ5o =4SE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1915913.jxvbqYS2Iq--