On Saturday 08 May 2010 18:04:42 Graham Murray wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.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.
You have a snowball's chance in hell of getting that into portage. A major concern of the devs is getting portage to rebuild *less* stuff and to fix ebuilds yo rebuild *less* stuff and fix devs who don't grok it. You are proposing the opposite. I can predict the response you will get if you file a bug: "Read the elog message" -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
