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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:51:11
Message-Id: 87fvkgfh6o.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, May 11 2014, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
4 >> I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ...
5 >> One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild
6 >> The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error,
7 >> but at the end announced I again needed to emerge about a dozen packages,
8 >> again including the two webkit-gtk versions and libreoffice.
9 >> The full output (see below) mentions several nvidia files.
10 >> How do I break this cycle?
11 >>> !!! existing preserved libs:
12 >>> package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3
13 >>> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1
14 >>> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.334.21
15 >>> * used by
16 >>> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins3d/drvOpenGL.x3d
17 >>> (app-text/acroread-9.5.5) ...
18 >>> * - /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glsi.so.334.21
19 >>> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.1
20 >>> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.334.21
21 >>> * used by /usr/lib32/egl/egl_gallium.so
22 >>> (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140406) ...
23 >
24 > I ran into the same glitch & removed the Nvidia .so files without harm.
25 > It also appears that Nvidia -- I'm using 334.21-r3 --
26 > no longer requires the 'emul' deps, which I also unmerged without harm.
27 > The noxious lines no longer appear in Portage output.
28
29 Thanks,
30 allan