Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Peter wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:16:53 -0600, Dale wrote:
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>>Niklas Bolander wrote:
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>>I have to agree.  Do it sort of like KDE, with kde, kde-meta or as
>>seperate packages.  Have it so you can pull in all three in one emerge
>>command but have the option to do it seperately as well.  I have only
>>emerged glx once and do the nvidia-kernel when I change kernels.  I
>>really don't have any use for the settings package, as long as my GUI
>>works anyway.
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>>Just give us some options.  We'll be happy then.
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>THAT is a very reasonable comment!
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And maybe a thought as well.  It sounds doable to me.  Removes foot from 
mouth.  LOL

>Thank you Dale and everyone else who commented. Please do not think this
>was an attempt to shove anything down anyone's throat. It was not. That's
>why this thread was started and that is why we wanted feedback.
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I didn't feel that way.  The only rig of mine that uses nvidia stuff is 
a fast one anyway.  It doesn't matter to me but it may to someone that 
is forced to use a 200MHz rig with only 64MBs of ram.  A laptop comes to 
mind as well.

>Those who commented that settings and xconfig are optional _are_ correct.
>They are in no way required and indeed many people would not use them even
>if they could. Since they were so small, I wanted to see if unifying the
>ebuilds would make sense.
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I would not object to the settings package as long as it does not change 
the defaults when it installs.  For me the default works.  Why mess with 
what works?

Dale
:-)

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