[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 11/ 8/13 10:41 AM, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:27 PM, cpforum <cpforum at orange.fr> wrote:
>> It looks like a wrong dependancy : nvidia needs xorg but xorg doesn't need
>> nvidia.
>>
>
> Well, no. The xorg-video package is "A group package that provides
> all of the available Xorg video drivers for a given platform". It's not
> Xorg itself. The simplest way round this would be to uninstall xorg-video,
> which wouldn't actually remove any files, just the dependencies.

Correct - it's just a simple way to install all the drivers for things like install
images & live cds that don't know which drivers will be needed.

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