Am Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:07:50 -0500 schrieb Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com>:
> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up > needing rebuilt during emerge world. > > Decided to see what `emerge @preserved-rebuild would bring me. > > ran `emerge -va @preserved-rebuild' and I notice that it appears my > setting in /etc/portage/make.conf for VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" is > being ignored... the output of above command shows: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.75::gentoo USE="-libkms -static-libs > -valgrind" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu* > nouveau* radeon* (-exynos) (-freedreno) -intel (-omap) (-tegra) (-vc4) > (-vivante) -vmware" 0 KiB > > [ebuild R ] mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.9-r1::gentoo USE="mbox ssl > tcpd -ipv6 -ldap -libressl -nis -sasl -sockets" 0 KiB > > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.2.0::gentoo > USE="-glamor" 0 KiB [ebuild R ] > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.8.0::gentoo USE="glamor -udev" 0 KiB > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.13::gentoo 0 KiB > > Note how VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu* nouveau* radeon* [...]" > is being assigned. > > And the already installed (probably unneeded pkgs are being > reinstalled) > > I considered ummerging those pkgs but checked `qdepends' on them and > that swears they are required by xorg-server not to mention this whole > string of other pkgs: > > qdepends x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.13: > >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.60[video_cards_nouveau] > >=x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10 !<sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r3 > >=sys-devel/automake-1.15:1.15 >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.69 > >=sys-devel/libtool-2.4 virtual/pkgconfig x11-proto/xf86driproto > x11-proto/glproto x11-proto/dri2proto x11-proto/fontsproto > x11-proto/randrproto x11-proto/renderproto x11-proto/videoproto > x11-proto/xextproto x11-proto/xineramaproto x11-proto/xproto > x11-base/xorg-server[-minimal] x11-libs/libdrm > x11-base/xorg-server[xorg] x11-libs/libpciaccess > > The other pkgs get similar output > > This was not the first time I checked qdepends on this. > > I did notice back when some of those driver pkgs were initially > installed and wondered then why I needed them... I checked then with > qdepends too and found that they are required by xorg-server and a > similar string of other pkgs as shown above for each. > > Can anyone say what is going on here...? Is this normal? > Should I really be needing drivers for ati, nouveau etc? > Any ideas about what needs to be done if anything? Please paste your complete make.conf and emerge --info. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
