On 3/31/20 12:54 PM, Chris Billington via arch-general wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:48 PM Amin Vakil <i...@aminvakil.com> wrote: > >> >> So why should nvidia-dkms upgrades? >> > > it's because nvidia-dkms is part of a split package that builds both nvidia > and nvidia-dkms. The bump in pkgrel is to rebuild nvidia for the new > kernel, and as a consequence the pkgrel for nvidia-dkms is bumped too, even > though it is unnecessary.
See the broadcom-wl PKGBUILD for how to avoid this. Also note the
wireguard-{arch,lts} packages have adopted this method.
It's up to Sven-Hendrik Haase if he wants to do this, though.
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Eli Schwartz
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