On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +0000, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, gentoo, > > I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for > VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild > only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent on that setting, or do I have > to start again from scratch? I've perused the emerge man page, but not > found this situation addressed.
What you failed to see if that VIDEO_CARDS flags are just an special type of USE flags. Using -auDvN world will fix everything. Truly speaking, xorg-server wouldn't even need to be recompiled (though that's what portage will do). As far as I know, all these special USE flags for xorg-server just push one of another xf86-video-* package(s) as dependencies, which in turn install the required driver(s). The rest of Xorg components do not relate to this, you shouldn't need to recompile anything else unless it also depends on VIDEO_CARDS (only several packages do, like DirectFB if I remember right). -- Jesús Guerrero
