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Dale wrote: |
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> Niklas Bolander wrote: |
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>> On Friday 23 December 2005 20:59, Peter wrote: |
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>>>> I can tell you that I would be disappointed if this replaces the |
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>>>> current |
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>>>> ebuilds, because I really don't need to reinstall nvidia-settings and |
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>>>> nvidia-glx every time I build a new kernel. |
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>>> That's why we are having this dialog. When I proposed doing a unified |
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>>> ebuild, the objective always was to get and encourage feedback. If |
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>>> you are |
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>>> happy keeping up with three ebuilds, then that is feedback we need to |
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>>> have. BTW, please post these comments to the bug report. |
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>>>>> We hope you will find this approach a more streamlined and easy |
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>>>>> implementation for nVidia. |
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>>>> I don't particularly see how it is easier. |
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>>> But many do. This mirrors the approach nvidia takes. |
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>> As another non-dev/user I must say that three separate ebuilds is |
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>> preferable. The kernel ebuild must be recompiled every time I change |
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>> kernel while the glx only needs to be installed once. Finaly, I have |
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>> rather bad experiences of nvidia-settings and would like to avoid them |
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>> at all. |
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>> Wouldn't it be more sensible to make a nvidia-meta build that pulled |
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>> in all three if the goal is pure simplicity? |
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>> Merry Christmas btw. |
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>> /Niklas |
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> I have to agree. Do it sort of like KDE, with kde, kde-meta or as |
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> seperate packages. Have it so you can pull in all three in one emerge |
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> command but have the option to do it seperately as well. I have only |
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> emerged glx once and do the nvidia-kernel when I change kernels. I |
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> really don't have any use for the settings package, as long as my GUI |
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> works anyway. |
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> Just give us some options. We'll be happy then. |
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Ditto. A unified build would make more work for my tired old CPU. A meta |
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build would be better, give us the choice to pull it all in or one at a |
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time like kde. |
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ps. I appreciate the original intention of trying to clean this up. Thanks! |
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