From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [69.77.167.62] (helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko4gI-0001sD-BV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:12:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 216A8E0835; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05500E0835 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m36so209599rnd.14 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:12:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bT/Fhc9SSS5q1UHi/EESdzl2XaTUzXgqNfqkPcU0goU=; b=LEQ3JR7oqyh+ZdlCbf49D7wuBxzw3jc9e+aH+UU353Z+lbgdgOpdDrgc+2V85D8EkT pomO38d/g0YX5/kKw9bOvv3dLHxmHTWBnaPc3qBTDr734XwBgDypFjPT/fNl+2hDKU0L HVxloTQxDoimuYqFXvagOa0Lr7f18JZGiur2s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=uRw7dN/LSz01rDWNETUbjJzn30WXSQXxoTTX7pNql5kaj8gkU6Z9u7kmrnqQ1ohez+ qJol/M/FtIkVo5rOgDGPTY8m1V5fmHS1RklbkGLY4vHObj5HQCcWunylyRxjigymqc+1 J08nPrhJoEO+v4ddWVPH2fMiSfux7QAwhR2ck= Received: by 10.150.124.2 with SMTP id w2mr978075ybc.180.1223593947957; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.122.12 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <350fc7cf0810091612w2ee50fc3oc64d20ce65ecf60a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:12:27 -0700 From: "Andrey Falko" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers In-Reply-To: <27060.70228.qm@web33808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <27060.70228.qm@web33808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: a328a998-231b-4c59-9ab7-37b7ddee2710 X-Archives-Hash: d185a81a99d025bcbfda6cd27634108a On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Pawel K wrote: > Hello > > I would like to get rid of all unnecessary x11-drivers/xf86-video-* > packages. > I do NOT want to migrate to "Modular X". > > I set my video card in /etc/make.conf as follows: > VIDEO_CARDS="i810" > > What should I do now. Just "emerge --unmerge" on each unnecessary package ? > Is it sufficient for emerge to NOT to install drivers on an upgrade xorg in > the future. > > Thanks for answer. > > > I would just do the following: emerge --depclean world -a revdep-rebuild -a --depclean will remove packages that were brought in as dependencies, but no longer are dependencies. revdep-rebuild will make sure that nothing got removed by revdep-rebuild that should not have been removed.