From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EptP8-0003MP-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:20:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBNKIiwc012846; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:18:44 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBNKFlGK007213 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:15:47 GMT Received: from zidane.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-zidane.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.13]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jBNKFk6P030501 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:15:46 -0500 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by zidane.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id ETQ77982; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:15:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43AC5AE4.1060209@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:15:32 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing References: <43AC537F.5030702@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5790ea51-d00b-48a3-9505-2582b3f14d64 X-Archives-Hash: e0331ff2e93857d055ca28dcbce8bd88 > Sigh...The point was to take 3, potentially 4, ebuilds and make 1. Well, nvidia-xconfig should probably be part of hte nvidia-settings ebuild, but I really don't think the drivers and kernel module should be included. Why not create a meta-ebuild which pulls all of these ebuilds in, so that it is easy to install everything, yet you don't break the ability to re-install the kernel module everytime somebody compiled a new kernel. > BTW, please post these comments to the bug report. Bug reports are not a forum for discussion. >>>We hope you will find this approach a more streamlined and easy >>>implementation for nVidia. >> >>I don't particularly see how it is easier. > > > But many do. This mirrors the approach nvidia takes. Why should we care what approach nvidia takes? I'm looking for reasons here. > No, nVidia devs are Kris and the x11-driver group. > BTW, I don't want to get into a multi-threaded debate about the > merits or drawbacks to this in this forum. Bug reports or comments are > encouraged since that way everyone involved will see it. I was just asked > to post the invite. See my comment above. Mailing lists are for discussion, and bugzilla is for fixing bugs. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list