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On 06/25/2009 05:51 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> short question: |
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> I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2)) with |
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> the nvidia drivers. |
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> Do I need mesa to be installed (I am heavily using OpenGL with |
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> Blender...) |
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You only need mesa if portage tells you so. In other words, most |
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probably yes, since it's an important dependency of many packages. If |
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however on your system it happens not to be a dependency of anything, |
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then you don't need it. |
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To check, simply edit /var/lib/portage/world and delete the line |
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media-libs/mesa |
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if it exists. If "emerge -p --depclean" wants to unmerge mesa, then you |
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don't need it. Just make sure to run revdep-rebuild afterwards to make |
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sure to packages were broken by this. |
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