On Aug 22, 2013 10:17 PM, "Samuli Suominen" <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:

On 22/08/13 22:03, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:

As I figured in the package's changelog, some work on it is being done
by Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>. He is also on this list, so
I guess he could get involved as soon as he reads the list.

Understood. Thanks.

Let's wait and hear from Samuli Suominen then.

Because the separate nvidia-settings package also ships a library which isn't installed by nvidia-drivers package:

$ qfile -b libXNVCtrl.a
media-video/nvidia-settings (/usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a)

And it's being used by xfce4-sensors-plugin, if you extract the tarball and look inside file configure.in, you'll see:

NVIDIA_LIBS="-lX11 -lXext -lXNVCtrl
                          ^^^^^^^^^ <- See here, libXNVCtrl.a used