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

[Peter]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:47:40 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Peter wrote:
>> We are in the process of developing and testing
>> a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented,
>> it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and
>> nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility
>> nvidia-xconfig.
>
> issues:
>  - people rebuild nvidia-kernel when they upgrade/change their kernel
>    version; rebuilding the other packages in this case is pointless
>  - nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx may be released in parallel, but
>    the nvidia-settings package is not last i checked (never even heard
>    of nvidia-xconfig) ... whats the point in unifying things when they
>    arent the same version ... you'll hit the same issue as above, if
>    a new version of nvidia-settings is put out, people will have to
>    pointlessly rebuild the other nvidia packages
> -mike

All noted. nvidia-settings and -xconfig are included in binary form with
the pkg?.run files. -xconfig is married to a particular version of the
driver. Settings too will change rarely, if at all, without a driver
update.

Total compile time, as noted in the bug report, for me was 1' 10" using an
XP 2500 oc'ed to 2800. The glx modules don't compile at all since they're
not open source. Updating only kernel, and not glx is a dangerous business
in any case. By unifying the ebuilds, we are merely duplicating what
nvidia provides in its install packages. We're not doing anything they
aren't.

FWIW, I have already contacted upstream and suggested _strongly_ that they
include the source for settings and xconfig with the pkg?.run files.

Your feedback is appreciated. Please post to the bug report any additional
comments.

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