On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg- > drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both > keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my > INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf? > > Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers > every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed. >
I suggest adding -N (--newuse) to that command, as in "emerge -uaDvN world". This will take USE flag changes into account when deciding on packages to (re)install. Note that INPUT_DEVICES is really just a fancy wrapper around a set of USE flags.