Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Philip Webb wrote: > On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ... >> One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild >> The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error, >> but at the end a

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau ... > One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild > The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuild finished without error, > but at the end announced I again needed to emerge about a dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-10 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, May 10 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/05/2014 23:34, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Fri, May 09 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> There's a brute force method. All the nvidia files listed below are now orphaned, so you should b

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/05/2014 23:34, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Fri, May 09 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> There's a brute force method. All the nvidia files listed below are now >>> orphaned, so you should be able to delete them and let revdep-rebuild >>> fi

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, May 09 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> There's a brute force method. All the nvidia files listed below are now >> orphaned, so you should be able to delete them and let revdep-rebuild >> fix anything remaining. You also have stuffs from emul-l

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, May 09 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau. I changed the >> entries in make.conf and did emerge --depclean nvidia-drivers. >> >> One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild, i

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/05/2014 14:50, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau. I changed the > entries in make.conf and did emerge --depclean nvidia-drivers. > > One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild, including > two webkit-gtk and libreoffice (so hou

[gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-09 Thread gottlieb
I am switching a system from nvidia-drivers to nouveau. I changed the entries in make.conf and did emerge --depclean nvidia-drivers. One result was about a dozen packages to @preserved-rebuild, including two webkit-gtk and libreoffice (so hours to rebuild). The overnight emerge @preserved-rebuil