[gentoo-dev] RFC: Overhaul of media-gfx/nvidia

[Arcady Genkin]

I didn't like the way 'nvidia' portage was done, and I ended up
re-doing it.  In fact, I split it in two portages: nvidia-kernel and
nvidia-glx.  Since I think that this can cause some controversy, I'd
like to discuss it in the mailing list.  The ebuilds are available
from:
              http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517

My version is better than the current one because:

1. It's split into two portages.  (a) the current
version of the kernel driver is 1.0.2314, while the current version of
the glx library is 1.0.2313.  With the current `nvidia' portage it's
unclear which one determines the version of the portage itself.  (b) if one
compiles a new version of Linux kernel, he only needs to update
nvidia-kernel, and leave nvidia-glx untouched.

2. NVIDIA's own makefile overwrites some of the native files that
come with XFree.  It upsets me when a package messes with the other
package's files, because if I were to update the world, the order of
update would determine the state of the system, etc.  I decided to put
the contents of nvidia-glx into /opt/NVIDIA to make sure that they don't
mess with anything else.

3. nvidia-kernel now creates necessary device nodes.

4. nvidia-kernel now installs aliases.

The small downside of the new layout is that the user needs to add a
modules path to the Files section in XF86Config.

Comments?
-- 
Arcady Genkin
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