On 26 March 2011 15:43, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is implicating a lot of packages. >> >> Det >> > Hmm, didn't see the email from Devolder. Having written the initial > nvidia-beta-all package, I can assure you that nvidia-beta-all (and > nvidia-all which Det maintains) builds the modules for all installed > kernels. uname -r is not used at all, a bit of sed hackery lists down > the installed kernels and builds nvidia modules for each of them.
An advantage of the individual nvidia packages I can see, would be that of the ability to offer prebuilt packages for specific AUR kernels (like kernel26-ck and kernel26-pf) in unofficial repos, which is convenient for some people. Otherwise, the -all version is really handy (I, for one, use it).