On Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 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.
in the past a lot of packages needed mesa to compile even if they would run with nvidia's or ati's opengl just fine.
