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?
