Can These Drivers Be Forcibly Removed From As Xorg Dependencies?

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 1 11:37:18 PST 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 12:31 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have mostly managed to get xorg updated, at least up to a point.
> portupgrade --batch -a -n reports:
> 
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         - x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga (marked as IGNORE)
>         - x11-drivers/xf86-video-via (marked as IGNORE)
>         * x11-drivers/xorg-drivers (xorg-drivers-7.3_3)
>         * x11/xorg (xorg-7.3_2)
> 
> Can I safely do a forced removal of the vga and via drivers,
> and then a pkgdb -FLa to rebuild dependencies, thereby (hopefully)
> allowing the rest of the xorg update to be portupgraded successfully?

Yes, in fact, I recommend it.

robert.

> TIA,
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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