[packman] nvidia-settings

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013, Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
>Am Freitag, 30. August 2013, 13:30:00 schrieb Ys:
>> 
>> nvidia-settings works well with 319.xx, do you want a -legacy package?
>> 
>No. That doesn't make sense.
>Again, nvidia-settings _is_ included even with the legacy driver.
>
># rpm -qlp x11-video-nvidiaG01-173.14.37-21.1.i586.rpm
>...snip...
>/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
>...snip...
>
>> I honestly don't understand the point of installing nvidia-settings and
>> not installing the driver alongside it
>> 
>Of course there is no point.
>And if you do install the driver, you already _have_ nvidia-settings, no need 
>to install that package as well...
>That's what I already said a few times.
>
>> > - It replaces files of the original driver with (maybe) incompatible
>> > versions.
>> 
>> No, not what I've seen
>> 
>Then have a look:
># rpm -qlp x11-video-nvidiaG03-319.32-15.1.i586.rpm
>...snip...
>/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
[..]

$ sed '1,/^END_OF_STUB$/d' < NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.15-pkg2.run | \
    tar tz | grep settings
./usr/bin/nvidia-settings
./usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-user-guide.txt
./usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop
./usr/share/pixmaps/nvidia-settings.png

HTH,
-dnh

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