[arch-general] pacman -- force removal despite dependencies (libgl)

[Jan de Groot]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 01:34 +0100, Stephen Wilkinson 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!
> 
> Steve

Vesa driver doesn't support DRI and/or OpenGL, so you'll end up with
software rendering anyways, no matter what you do.