On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Pawel K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would  like to get rid of all unnecessary x11-drivers/xf86-video-*
> packages.
> I do NOT want to migrate to "Modular X".
>
> I set my video card in /etc/make.conf as follows:
> VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
>
> What should I do now. Just "emerge --unmerge" on each unnecessary package ?
> Is it sufficient for emerge to NOT to install drivers on an upgrade xorg in
> the future.
>
> Thanks for answer.
>
>
>

I would just do the following:

emerge --depclean world -a
revdep-rebuild -a

--depclean will remove packages that were brought in as dependencies,
but no longer are dependencies. revdep-rebuild will make sure that
nothing got removed by revdep-rebuild that should not have been
removed.

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