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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:09:36
Message-Id: 5216530A.1020808@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 22/08/2013 20:02, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On 08/22/2013 08:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings.
4 >> You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of
5 >> nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number.
6 >>
7 >> This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They
8 >> do not seem to get updated at the same time (unless driver changes
9 >> require it be done of course)
10 > Thanks for your prompt response.
11 >
12 > There seem to be ebuilds available for both versions of the
13 > nvidia-settings in the portage repository:
14 > box0=; ls `pwd`/*|egrep '304.60|319.32'
15 > /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-304.60.ebuild
16 > /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-319.32.ebuild
17 >
18 > I've also noticed that in the xfce 'Applicatoins Menu' -> 'Settings', I
19 > have two entries for nvidia-settings.
20 >
21 > Is there a reason why the xfce-sensors plug-in pulls in
22 > nvidia-settings-304.60, instead of nvidia-settings-319.32?
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25 xfce4-sensors-plugin is not what's doing it. It only requires
26 nvidia-settings and doesn't care what version. So that's not it.
27
28 There's really only one explanation - something else is pulling in
29 nvidia-settings and xfce4-sensors-plugin is leaving it as-is.
30
31 Please post the results of
32
33 equery depends nvidia-settings
34 grep -r nvidia-settings /etc/portage
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39 --
40 Alan McKinnon
41 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>