Hi Wolfgang, On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:12:14 +0200 Wolfgang Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, sorry for the late answer, I had to care about other stuff... > > Am Samstag, 17. August 2013, 20:11:11 schrieb Ys: > > Oh, and did I mention it got updated to 325.15? > > What I can figure from the UI is: PowerMizer function and section > > were restored > > VDPAU information section was added > > > Yes, I saw that. Nice. > But the nvidia driver 325.15 does contain nvidia-settings-325.15, so > nothing new there... > And the version in the official nvidia repo is still 319.32 AFAICS. > > Yet I still think publishing should be disabled for this package, > because: > - It is useless. Nvidia-settings is included with the nvidia driver, > and without the driver it doesn't make sense anyway. > > - It replaces files of the original driver with (maybe) incompatible > versions. > > - Are you sure 325.15 works with the 304.xx or even 173.xx driver? > I'm not. But the version included with the driver should work in any > case. > > And even if newer nvidia-settings versions work with all old drivers, > the drivers won't support the new features anyway, so people can just > as well use the included nvidia-settings. > > - Stuff like conky (which doesn't build since months btw, the link is > broken...) will still build against the nvidia-settings package even > if it is not published. > > Sorry for writing this again, but you don't seem to have read it > before... > > Anyway, I'll really keep my mouth shut now. ;) NO! Please one more word, or so... Can you please create a bug report on this in bugs.links2linux.de? This will help keep track of that change, if someone will have a question in the future? Thank you, Stefan -- Stefan Botter zu Hause Bremen
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