As a side note, I believe the ethos behind the "nvidia-current" name was to represent the presently stable nvidia driver version. Appending the -updates to "nvidia-current" or -experimental to it may be convoluting that namespace and/or confusing the user.
Would just making it "nvidia-stable", "nvidia-updates", and "nvidia-experimental" perhaps make more sense? On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > -- > technical-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board > > -- Mario Limonciello [email protected]
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