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 1Ptkfv-0006Qc-M3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:44:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C3121C047; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9A51C047 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi3 with SMTP id 3so1039419pxi.40 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:43:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=dA5n3j7aEiqw8qjbStFqpUH/X3x/Ld0KqAoENgJNZco=; b=SLsmu+vTWj9cON82c7UsZOYKe8ehwAZ4X7x061ExUB3FpMQ78AaKl8KNl51jVAUjvK fISqu/yQWTawq4dZ+Uwn1Q2A07otxF5aObXvsuQMXV0B8hTVMoj/i9Bg+5qUOnbgCErp OqBzV953049BYC7w1UgS6ffpS6m0jOHBWU9zU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=qEj9pyUxD7SOu1/qxdpmQWHxdaAGlB2dghPAGyX6ls8+4KcGPsubrvZ7lxGopXtiQA KBCESEK5QPV5GZciyQVhv1i3Ulm/Gf7EC8twmKW+GOS8yKeymvKz5jXHBSZPNWIk2d9Q D0tw/bAkvQSQWa9K3fgLKoyxGtRNWmI0ULTWg= 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 Received: by 10.142.107.6 with SMTP id f6mr3602808wfc.142.1298828613306; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.161.19 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:43:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201102271458.43029.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201102260838.10279.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201102271458.43029.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:43:33 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c4b41541aebd6138f7b1deb927dad9c9 On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick wrote: > I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg- > drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both > keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my > INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf? > > Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers > every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed. > I suggest adding -N (--newuse) to that command, as in "emerge -uaDvN world". This will take USE flag changes into account when deciding on packages to (re)install. Note that INPUT_DEVICES is really just a fancy wrapper around a set of USE flags.