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On 07/20/2011 12:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:16:06 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards 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 qfile to find what is need to be reinstalled:
>>>
>>>   qlist -I -C x11-drivers/  
>>
>> I've always wondered why, if portage knows that has to be done, can't
>> portage just go ahead and do it?
> 
> Now that we have a set to do this, I see no reason why this could not be
> an option, enabled by a USE flag.
> 
> 

The last time I complained about this, someone sent me here:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192319