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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:17:35
Message-Id: 52166308.9030909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 22/08/13 22:03, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On 08/22/2013 09:59 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
3 >> As I figured in the package's changelog, some work on it is being done
4 >> by Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>. He is also on this list, so
5 >> I guess he could get involved as soon as he reads the list.
6 > Understood. Thanks.
7 >
8 > Let's wait and hear from Samuli Suominen then.
9 >
10 >
11
12 Because the separate nvidia-settings package also ships a library which
13 isn't installed by nvidia-drivers package:
14
15 $ qfile -b libXNVCtrl.a
16 media-video/nvidia-settings (/usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a)
17
18 And it's being used by xfce4-sensors-plugin, if you extract the tarball
19 and look inside file configure.in, you'll see:
20
21 NVIDIA_LIBS="-lX11 -lXext -lXNVCtrl
22 ^^^^^^^^^ <- See here, libXNVCtrl.a used

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