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From: Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:17:28
Message-Id: 20180310071708.3g2wpr5hye2i3qtg@31c0.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:44:54 +0100
2 tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
3 >On 03/10 07:35, Floyd Anderson wrote:
4 >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 05:42:16 +0100
5 >> tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
6 >> >
7 >> > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1:0/1.19.5::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
8 >> > x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.5:0/0::gentoo, installed)
9 >> > ^^^^^^^^^^
10 >> > x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.26.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
11 >> > ^^^^^^^^^^
12 >>
13 >> Are you sure you need both input drivers?
14 >>
15 >>
16 >> --
17 >> Regards,
18 >> floyd
19 >>
20 >>
21 >
22 >Dont know...are they interchangeable?
23
24 Yes, but libinput is the default now [1][2]. If you doesn’t have any
25 reason to keep both installed, I would simply go the mainstream route
26 and probably bypass some issues [3].
27
28
29 References:
30   - [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601132>
31   - [2] <https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d3ac878318dd96a88190a13b5ac7572ec0c56380>
32   - [3] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libinput#Troubleshooting>
33
34
35 --
36 Regards,
37 floyd