Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 06:56 schrieb Ryan Tandy: > Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Well, I think I got the conecpt behind meta packages. My question was > > why do I get a different content of the VIDEO_CARDS-variable when I > > specify "-k" in emerge or not??? > > You can't change the USE flags a binary package was built with. Binary > packages are built with a certain set of flags, and they're stuck with > that set of flags until you recompile the whole thing. > OK, thats pretty obvious.
> I'd recommend you emerge --nodeps xorg-x11 in order to change its > USEflags to the ones you want (no compilation necessary), and then > emerge -k to pull in the binary packages depended on by its new flags, > which will save you the compiling time. > > HTH. Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown in the list, and VIDEO_CARDS did not show the same content as without -k. Greetings, Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
