On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
> I believe adding "-video_cards_nvidia" to
> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask (notice the directory!) should do it.
> 
> But really this doesn't matter...this use flag is only used to add a
> dependancy on the nvidia drivers for xorg-x11.  Having the nvidia flag
> masked doesn't in any way prevent you from unmasking
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers, merging them, and using nvidia in
> xorg.conf.

I see, just one last question about this: so I am assuming that this
means that the use flag would allow xorg-x11 to pull in nvidia-drivers
as a dependency. All I really need to do then is to emerge
nvidia-drivers separately myself?

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