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 1EqFca-00069C-CL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:04:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBOK3Gg9005552; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:03:16 GMT Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBOK0Oud020414 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:00:25 GMT Received: (qmail 8631 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2005 20:00:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (curtis119@sbcglobal.net@69.221.12.88 with plain) by smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Dec 2005 20:00:24 -0000 Message-ID: <43ADA8EF.1010406@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:00:47 -0500 From: Curtis Napier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051214) 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> <200512240947.54216.niklas.bolander@telia.com> <43AD1205.1050403@exceedtech.net> In-Reply-To: <43AD1205.1050403@exceedtech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 236960bd-4728-4c61-94a7-346e596a8d6e X-Archives-Hash: 75d4e0c0dcccc1b54601d61e4371262d Dale wrote: > Niklas Bolander wrote: > >> On Friday 23 December 2005 20:59, Peter wrote: >> >> >>>> I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the >>>> current >>>> ebuilds, because I really don't need to reinstall nvidia-settings and >>>> nvidia-glx every time I build a new kernel. >>>> >>> >>> That's why we are having this dialog. When I proposed doing a unified >>> ebuild, the objective always was to get and encourage feedback. If >>> you are >>> happy keeping up with three ebuilds, then that is feedback we need to >>> have. BTW, please post these comments to the bug report. >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> As another non-dev/user I must say that three separate ebuilds is >> preferable. The kernel ebuild must be recompiled every time I change >> kernel while the glx only needs to be installed once. Finaly, I have >> rather bad experiences of nvidia-settings and would like to avoid them >> at all. >> >> Wouldn't it be more sensible to make a nvidia-meta build that pulled >> in all three if the goal is pure simplicity? >> Merry Christmas btw. >> >> /Niklas >> >> > 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. > > Just give us some options. We'll be happy then. > Ditto. A unified build would make more work for my tired old CPU. A meta build would be better, give us the choice to pull it all in or one at a time like kde. ps. I appreciate the original intention of trying to clean this up. Thanks! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list