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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hoe to stop em8300-modulesinstalling?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:32:08
Message-Id: 1227169918.14770.0.camel@rattus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hoe to stop em8300-modulesinstalling? by Dave Jones
1 Great, thanks. One of these really obvious use flags ... not!
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3 BillK
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6 On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:35 +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
7 > Hi,
8 >
9 > Dale wrote on 20/11/08 02:40:
10 > > William Kenworthy wrote:
11 > >> An emerge world wants to install em8300-modules which according to
12 > >> equery is caused by sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r3 which is
13 > >> installed but not in use - yet.
14 > >>
15 > >> As em8300 wont build, and I dont have a one (I presume its a video
16 > >> chip-set??) I dont want to fuss with it, so how do I stop world trying
17 > >> to install it?
18 >
19 > > Is there a USE flag that is causing gentoo-sources to pull it in?
20 > > That's all I can think of unless there is a roach in the works somewhere.
21 >
22 > > If you are new to Gentoo, add the -v option to emerge so it will show
23 > > the USE flags and other info that may shed some light.
24 >
25 > Removing the USE=dxr3 flag seemed to work for me.
26 >
27 > Cheers, Dave
28 >
29 --
30 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
31 Home in Perth!

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