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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 04:58:06
Message-Id: 20140511045754.GA977@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild by Alan McKinnon
1 On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
2 > I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ...
3 > One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild
4 > The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error,
5 > but at the end announced I again needed to emerge about a dozen packages,
6 > again including the two webkit-gtk versions and libreoffice.
7 > The full output (see below) mentions several nvidia files.
8 > How do I break this cycle?
9 >> !!! existing preserved libs:
10 >> package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3
11 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1
12 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.334.21
13 >> * used by /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins3d/drvOpenGL.x3d (app-text/acroread-9.5.5) ...
14 >> * - /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glsi.so.334.21
15 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.1
16 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.334.21
17 >> * used by /usr/lib32/egl/egl_gallium.so (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140406) ...
18
19 I ran into the same glitch & removed the Nvidia .so files without harm.
20 It also appears that Nvidia -- I'm using 334.21-r3 --
21 no longer requires the 'emul' deps, which I also unmerged without harm.
22 The noxious lines no longer appear in Portage output.
23
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