On Saturday, March 19, 2011 20:19:41 Det wrote: > Helloooo, > > So I've been thinking about this for some time now and I finally > decided to ask the ones who know the best: would it be enough to only > have 'nvidia-beta-all' and 'nvidia-all' in the AUR to replace all > those nvidia-ice, nvidia-bfs, eg. packages? (Decluding nvidia-utils*, > of course.) > > As far as I can think of, I can't see any downside(s) (whatsoever) of > using those *-all packages instead of those 'specifc-kernel' packages, > since they do in fact auto-detect all the kernels on the system. > > Now to the important part: what do you think? > > Det
Hi, nvidia-beta-all may be suitable for multikernel installation, but prevents you from having installed various versions of nvidia driver in each kernel (when a regression is introduced in some kernel for example) or having none driver installed for a particular kernel at all. I myself use the dual-kernel setup, one with nvidia-beta and one with nouveau drivers. This option would be lost If only nvidia-beta-all would be available, since it would install nvidia kernel module everywhere. And I believe that nvidia/nouveau is one of the most common reasons for people to have multiple kernels installed. I'd suggest to keep nvidia-beta-all and nvidia-beta packages, (because nvidia- beta uses uname -r to detect current running kernel) and get rid of all those nvidia-beta-whateverkernelhaveeverbeeninaur packages. Regards, Dan PS: I'm maintainer of nvidia-beta, but I'm not lobbying for keeping it because I don't want to lose a package, but as a result of my reasoning and expectations of user comfort. -- --- Dan Vrátil d...@progdan.cz Tel.: +420732326870 Jabber: prog...@jabber.cz Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.
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