Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages

[Ryan Tandy]

Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Well, I think I got the conecpt behind meta packages. My question was why do
> I get a different content of the VIDEO_CARDS-variable when I specify "-k"
> in emerge or not???

You can't change the USE flags a binary package was built with.  Binary 
packages are built with a certain set of flags, and they're stuck with 
that set of flags until you recompile the whole thing.

I'd recommend you emerge --nodeps xorg-x11 in order to change its 
USEflags to the ones you want (no compilation necessary), and then 
emerge -k to pull in the binary packages depended on by its new flags, 
which will save you the compiling time.

HTH.
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