Hello Bryce, Bryce Harrington [2012-09-03 17:17 -0700]: > > I guess this selection should also persist across dist-upgrades, for > > people opting in to "always stay on the bleeding edge"? > > Well, my vision here is not for supporting users wanting to be on the > bleeding edge, so much as providing required driver support for > particular commercial games. > > The use case would be that a user purchases a game that needs a beta > driver; the beta driver gets installed and they can play their game. > Later they upgrade to a new ubuntu that includes the latest released > -nvidia driver; that version is sufficient for playing the game they > bought. So it isn't important to keep them on the beta driver at that > point; we could return them to stock without issue.
Ah, thanks. This use case indeed calls for the "one-time enabler" behaviour, not a permanent selection. > Maybe the right question for this case is, is it feasible to move them > from the -beta driver back to stock on upgrade? Sure. The experimental driver in the final release is an empty transitional package pointing to nvidia-current. The first n-c-e in -updates will then drop the Depends: nvidia-current and go back to Conflicts:/Replaces: nvidia-current and ship its own driver. I just saw that our current nvidia-current-updates does not yet conflict to nvidia-current; I think it should only ever be possible to install one nvidia package flavour at a time, so that the alternatives are being handled automatically (since we do not have a GUI for switching between them). Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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