On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:45:35AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > 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?
That does seem clearer. I do favor 'nvidia-experimental' over 'nvidia-current-experimental' since it's more concise and arguably clearer. By now the 'nvidia-current-updates' name is established and folks are used to it, so we may not gain much by changing it. But I do like your suggestion of the simpler nvidia-stable. In any case, I don't think we should engage in renaming packages for the LTS, and even for quantal maybe we're a bit too close to release. But perhaps this would be a good topic for UDS-R? Bryce > 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] -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
