From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 31 18:45:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2F16A417 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D94313C45B for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l6VIjG2r096365; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:45:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:44:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46AF8170.7050106@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <46AF8170.7050106@enabled.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707311444.44677.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Noah Subject: Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:45:18 -0000 On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:37:36 pm Noah wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the > xf86 input an video drivers listed below. Sure, just uninstall the xorg metaport, the xorg-drivers metaport, and any of the driver ports you listed that you're not interested in. You can use pkg_delete or similar. To actually _prevent_ the packages from being installed, you should avoid installing either metaport above or anything that depends on them. If you felt so inspired, you could make your own xorg-drivers-custom metaport, have it depend on only the drivers you're interested in, mark it as conflicting with the vanilla xorg-drivers port, and use it as a replacement. You'd probably have to run pkgdb -F a lot (if you use portupgrade) or take other provisions to repair the dependencies, but it could be done. On the whole though, what are you trying to gain? X.org and XFree86 on FreeBSD have always defaulted to installing all of the available drivers. It's just more visible now that each one has its own port in the post Xorg-7.0 world. JN