Re: [gentoo-user] no mouse nor keyboard on X

[Graham Murray]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:

> xorg-drivers is just a meta package and won't remerge individual drivers
> unless the version number changes. It look to me like you have an evdev driver
> built against an earlier X server

Does anyone else think it would be useful for emerge to have a switch to
make it re-emerge all of the individual packages making up a
meta-package? 'emerge metapackage' does not do enough and 'emerge -e
metapackage' will rebuild too much.Either that or a utility to split a
meta-package into its constituent parts, so you could have something
like 'emerge $(qsplit xorg-drivers)'. Though in the case of xorg-drivers
the recommended 'emerge $(qlist -IC xorg-drivers/)' works just as well,
but this is just pure luck as the required packages are in a single
category which contains no other packages.