[OpenIndiana-discuss] removing the nvidia driver

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/19/13 02:30 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> Creating Planpkg uninstall: Cannot remove 'pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia@0.319.17,5.11-0.151.1.8.1:20130825T181904Z' due to the following packages that depend on it:
>    pkg://openindiana.org/x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.8:20130305T151745Z
>
> My question: Can anyone suggest a way to remove the nVIDIA driver?

pkg uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia xorg-video

The xorg-video package is just a group package which depends on all the
other packages for the Xorg video drivers, to ensure they're all installed.

(A change made in the upstream sources which doesn't seem to be OI's copy yet
  changed it to use IPS dependencies of type=group, which makes it more of a
  "recommended, installed by default, but can be removed" dependency than the
  required type OI currently has in place.)

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