On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, cpforum <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to replace openindiana 151-a8 nvidia driver with
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-173.14.38.run (to have Nvidia FX5200 support)
>
>
> oi-151a8 failed uninstalling driver/graphics/nvidia
>
> # LC_ALL=C pkg uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia
> Creating Plan
> pkg uninstall: Cannot remove 'pkg://
> openindiana.org/driver/graphics/[email protected],5.11-0.151.1.8.1:20130825T181904Z'
> due to the following packages that depend on it:
> pkg://
> openindiana.org/x11/server/xorg/driver/[email protected],5.11-0.151.1.8:20130305T151745Z
>
> It looks like a wrong dependancy : nvidia needs xorg but xorg doesn't need
> nvidia.
>

Well, no. The xorg-video package is "A group package that provides
all of the available Xorg video drivers for a given platform". It's not
Xorg itself. The simplest way round this would be to uninstall xorg-video,
which wouldn't actually remove any files, just the dependencies.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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