Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg-
> drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both
> keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my
> INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf?
>
> Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers
> every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed.
>

I suggest adding -N (--newuse) to that command, as in "emerge -uaDvN
world". This will take USE flag changes into account when deciding on
packages to (re)install.

Note that INPUT_DEVICES is really just a fancy wrapper around a set of
USE flags.