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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:22:28
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMX=0feURecD_46LT1ynJvndedAJLdNXkm95Fr7cQfY3AQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings by Samuli Suominen
1 Understood. Thanks.
2
3 What course of action would you recommend taking with regard to my original
4 post?
5
6 Thanks.
7 On Aug 22, 2013 10:17 PM, "Samuli Suominen" <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
8
9 > On 22/08/13 22:03, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
10 >
11 >> On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
12 >>
13 >>> As I figured in the package's changelog, some work on it is being done
14 >>> by Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>. He is also on this list, so
15 >>> I guess he could get involved as soon as he reads the list.
16 >>>
17 >> Understood. Thanks.
18 >>
19 >> Let's wait and hear from Samuli Suominen then.
20 >>
21 >>
22 >>
23 > Because the separate nvidia-settings package also ships a library which
24 > isn't installed by nvidia-drivers package:
25 >
26 > $ qfile -b libXNVCtrl.a
27 > media-video/nvidia-settings (/usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a)
28 >
29 > And it's being used by xfce4-sensors-plugin, if you extract the tarball
30 > and look inside file configure.in, you'll see:
31 >
32 > NVIDIA_LIBS="-lX11 -lXext -lXNVCtrl
33 > ^^^^^^^^^ <- See here, libXNVCtrl.a used
34 >
35 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>