On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ... > One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild > The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error, > but at the end announced I again needed to emerge about a dozen packages, > again including the two webkit-gtk versions and libreoffice. > The full output (see below) mentions several nvidia files. > How do I break this cycle? >> !!! existing preserved libs: >> package: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-334.21-r3 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.334.21 >> * used by >> /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins3d/drvOpenGL.x3d >> (app-text/acroread-9.5.5) ... >> * - /usr/lib64/libnvidia-glsi.so.334.21 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.1 >> * - /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libEGL.so.334.21 >> * used by /usr/lib32/egl/egl_gallium.so >> (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140406) ...
I ran into the same glitch & removed the Nvidia .so files without harm. It also appears that Nvidia -- I'm using 334.21-r3 -- no longer requires the 'emul' deps, which I also unmerged without harm. The noxious lines no longer appear in Portage output. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
