[packman] nvidia-settings

Malcolm malcolmlewis at cableone.net
Fri Sep 6 18:06:21 CEST 2013


On Fri 06 Sep 2013 06:03:36 PM CDT, Wolfgang Bauer wrote:

>Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 17:05:55 schrieb Stefan Botter:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 15:02:47 +0300
>> 
>> Ys <musicsuse at gmx.com> wrote:
>> > This isn't going to any where,
>> > If you don't want that package, don't install it. (that's your
>> > choice)
>> 
>> But again, Wolfgang has a valid point here. It is installed along the
>> Nvidia driver, and the nvidia-settings package collides with it. And
>> is seldom in sync with the the actual driver.
>> 
>> Yes, it is needed for build of certain packages, but as far as I can
>> see, there the version does not matter, so having _any_
>> nvidia-settings in PM is OK, but we will set it to nopublish. So
>> nobody will run in an awkward situation with an outdated
>> nvidia-settings.
>>
>Nice summary, thank you.
>
>I had a look at conky, and actually it BuildRequires libXNVCtrl, which 
>apparently is the -devel part of nvidia-settings (but created from the
>same spec file of course).
>
>So another possibility would be to change nvidia-settings' spec file
>to only create the libXNVCtrl package.
>I don't know what other packages need nvidia-settings and how it would
>be in those cases, though.
>
>And should I still file a bug report or is this not necessary any more?
>
>Kind regards,
>Wolfgang
Hi
I think create a bug and just delete the unwanted files and create a
libXNVCtrl package, then set to not publish or not.

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