x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 07/02/2011 07:12 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/02/2011 14:42, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> Are x11-server/x11-server and x11/nvidia-driver together incompatible
>> with portmaster?
>>
>> If you install x11-server/xorg-server, and then install
>> x11/nvidia-driver, then "pkg_delete -f" and reinstall xorg-server, then
>> it seems to me that x11/nvidia-driver will be broken, because
>> xorg-server will overwrite lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libgl.*, and
>> nvidia-driver also writes these files.
>>
>> I know that x11/nvidia-driver restores the libgl.* files when it is
>> deinstalled. But it is portmaster's use of "pkg_delete -f" that concerns
>> me.
>
> This is a known problem, and has nothing to do with portmaster. If you
> deinstall nvidia-driver first it restores the xorg-server files to the
> prior state. If you do xorg-server first, doing the install of
> nvidia-driver with -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER (without deinstalling first)
> should do the trick.
>
>
> hth,
>
> Doug
>

Yes, I knew the solution.

But I was really offering this as a reason to have some kind of 
"NO_REINSTALL" flag, or something similar.  Something that tells 
portmaster that it shouldn't deinstall xorg-server without deinstalling 
nvidia-driver first.

Thanks, Stephen