On Fri 06 Sep 2013 06:03:36 PM CDT, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: >Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 17:05:55 schrieb Stefan Botter: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 15:02:47 +0300 >> >> Ys <[email protected]> wrote: >> > This isn't going to any where, >> > If you don't want that package, don't install it. (that's your >> > choice) >> >> But again, Wolfgang has a valid point here. It is installed along the >> Nvidia driver, and the nvidia-settings package collides with it. And >> is seldom in sync with the the actual driver. >> >> Yes, it is needed for build of certain packages, but as far as I can >> see, there the version does not matter, so having _any_ >> nvidia-settings in PM is OK, but we will set it to nopublish. So >> nobody will run in an awkward situation with an outdated >> nvidia-settings. >> >Nice summary, thank you. > >I had a look at conky, and actually it BuildRequires libXNVCtrl, which >apparently is the -devel part of nvidia-settings (but created from the >same spec file of course). > >So another possibility would be to change nvidia-settings' spec file >to only create the libXNVCtrl package. >I don't know what other packages need nvidia-settings and how it would >be in those cases, though. > >And should I still file a bug report or is this not necessary any more? > >Kind regards, >Wolfgang Hi I think create a bug and just delete the unwanted files and create a libXNVCtrl package, then set to not publish or not.
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