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Peter wrote: |
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> To Gentoo nVidia users: |
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> We are in the process of developing and testing |
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> a unified nVidia driver ebuild. When implemented, |
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> it will replace the nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, and |
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> nvidia-settings ebuilds. It will also add the utility |
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> nvidia-xconfig. |
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Well I just wanted to say thanks for doing this. It doesn't make sense to have |
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two different ebuilds (kernel & glx) for one package. kernel & glx are |
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essentially tied together by version anyways. nvidia-settings might be |
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arguable, as it's not too very small (~1MiB) and not necessary for basic usage |
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of the driver. |
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>From a new-driver-version perspective it makes sense, if not from the |
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new-kernel-version perspective. But really, you're talking about a few extra |
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seconds to merge the glx portion (which doesn't need compiling), and it saves |
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you from unpacking the ~11MiB driver file twice. |
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--de. |
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