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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to depclean my xorg video driver
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:48:03
Message-Id: 20170422104748.GE10896@tp
1 Hello group,
2
3 after years of reading of other people’s dependency stupefications here, it
4 is finally my turn. Looking over the output of emerge --depclean after a
5 world update, I found that portage wants to remove my X11 video driver. o.O
6 From my point of view, it should not want to do so, because all requirements
7 seem to be in order for the package to be kept. Can you enlighten me, please?
8
9 Here’s how far I got:
10
11 $ emerge --depclean -pv xf86-video-intel
12
13 Calculating dependencies... done!
14 >>> Calculating removal order...
15
16 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
17
18 x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
19 selected: 2.99.917_p20170216
20 protected: none
21 omitted: none
22
23
24 $ equery d xf86-video-intel
25 * These packages depend on xf86-video-intel:
26 x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (video_cards_i915 ? x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel)
27 (!video_cards_i965 ? x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel)
28
29
30 $ grep VIDEO_CARDS /etc/portage/make.conf
31 VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"
32
33
34 $ LC_ALL=C eix xorg-drivers
35 [I] x11-base/xorg-drivers
36 Available versions: 1.12 1.15 1.18-r1 1.19 **9999
37 Installed versions: 1.19(19:52:33 03/10/17)(INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics -acecad ..." VIDEO_CARDS="i965 intel -amdgpu -apm ...")
38 Homepage: https://www.gentoo.org/
39 Description: Meta package containing deps on all xorg drivers
40
41
42 Cheers.
43 --
44 Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’
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46
47 Rather either than or instead.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to depclean my xorg video driver Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>