From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 31 18:55:04 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 3465416A417 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:55:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF28613C467 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:55:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from [192.168.125.134] ([192.168.125.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6VIt1BV038691 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:55:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:55:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46AF8170.7050106@enabled.com> <200707311444.44677.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200707311444.44677.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707311355.00794.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on pollux.dfwlp.com 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 18:55:04 -0000 On Tuesday 31 July 2007 13:44:44 John Nielsen wrote: > 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 honestly tho, it *does* seem like there should be a configuration where you can choose as many or as few of the available ones as you need. if they were going to go to the trouble of making each one a seperare entity, it just seems logical that the meta would include some knobs. -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com