[packman] nvidia-settings

[Wolfgang Bauer]

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 awkward situation with an outdated nvidia-settings.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