On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:51:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 22/04/2017 12:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Hello group,
> >
> > after years of reading of other people’s dependency stupefications here, it
> > is finally my turn. Looking over the output of emerge --depclean after a
> > world update, I found that portage wants to remove my X11 video driver. o.O
> > From my point of view, it should not want to do so, because all requirements
> > seem to be in order for the package to be kept. Can you enlighten me, 
> > please?
> […]
> The ebuild's DEPEND:
>
> video_cards_i915?          ( x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel )
> video_cards_i965?          ( >=x11-base/xorg-server-${PV}[glamor] )
> video_cards_intel?         ( !video_cards_i965? (
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel ) )
>
> So remove i965 from VIDEO_CARDS. "intel" will suffice.
>
>
> Do you have xorg-server built with USE=glamor ?

Indeed I do, due to:
$ equery d xorg-server
x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (video_cards_i965 ? 
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.19[glamor])

Thanks for removing the tomatoes from my eyes. I looked it up on the Wiki
(https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#Drivers) and it explained it nicely for me.

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