On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Stephen Wilkinson <sw8511@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
I have both xf86-video-vesa and nvidia-96xx installed, but I have issues with the proprietary drivers, so I wanted to try out vesa with libgl.
I can remove nvidia-96xx, but trying to remove nvidia-96xx-utils flags lots of conflicts. I was going to use pacman -Rc but that would mean uninstalling (and later reinstalling) lots of packages... and I'm thinking there must be a quicker and more elegant way about this.
I was wondering if there's a way to force removal of nvidia-96xx-utils and ignore the dependencies since libgl will satisfy them anyway. (I know in general it would not be a good idea for pacman to allow this...)
I tried pacman -R --force but that doesn't work (--force is not a removal option).
I thought about forcing the installing of libgl with -f instead, but I thought it would be neater to remove nvidia-96xx-utils first (otherwise I will have problems later when it comes to delete either package?)
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Try -Rd -d, --nodeps Skips all dependency checks. Normally, pacman will always check a package´s dependency fields to ensure that all dependencies are installed and there are no package conflicts in the system.