On 06/25/2009 05:51 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
short question:
I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2)) with
the nvidia drivers.
Do I need mesa to be installed (I am heavily using OpenGL with
Blender...)
You only need mesa if portage tells you so. In other words, most
probably yes, since it's an important dependency of many packages. If
however on your system it happens not to be a dependency of anything,
then you don't need it.
To check, simply edit /var/lib/portage/world and delete the line
media-libs/mesa
if it exists. If "emerge -p --depclean" wants to unmerge mesa, then you
don't need it. Just make sure to run revdep-rebuild afterwards to make
sure to packages were broken by this.
