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

[Stephen Wilkinson]

Thanks Aaron, Xavier and Jan,

I thought -d, like -f, wouldn't work with remove... but it does,
that's just what I needed!
Software rendering is slower than with the nvidia drivers ... but at
least the machine doesn't freeze when I log out/switch user. It will
do for now!

Steve

2008/10/24 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> 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.
>
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