On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:38:30PM +0200, Robert Knauer wrote: >> Hello, >> please disown nvidia-pae[1], it's outdated for more than a month now >> and I mailed the maintainer on 1st of September and got no answer. >> >> Thanks, >> Robert >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40101 > > Don't take this personally... you're just the one who happened to bring > it up. Do we _really_ need all this duplication? Does every kernel in > the AUR needs its own _from_ _source_ instructions to build kernel > modules? Really, these should all be about 3-4 lines to change in the > extra/nvidia PKGBUILD. Instead, we have... > > nvidia-apparmor > nvidia-bede > nvidia-bfs > nvidia-bl > nvidia-ck > nvidia-custom > nvidia-fbcondecor > nvidia-ice > nvidia-ll > nvidia-lqx > nvidia-mainline > nvidia-pae > nvidia-pf > nvidia-rifs > nvidia-rt > nvidia-uksm > nvidia-zen > > I'm sure these are all unique and beautiful in their own way, but > really, they're all duplicates as far as I'm concerned. nvidia is the > biggest offender of this, but it certainly applies to other modules as > well. > > </rant> > > dave
So that's why I expect pacman to bring in dkms or dkms-like functions for long so we only need something like dkms-nvidia. As an example, [community-testing]/virtualbox-host-source is now using dkms to build its kernel modules and it works very well. So I expect AUR/dkms-nvidia to be moved into [community] or [extra] if possible (it has already 94 votes too) and become recommended method for nvidia module someday. Just a side note that some of the packages, for example nvidia-rt, are patched versions and not easy enough for user to just apply on the [extra]/nvidia PKGBUILD. Felix Yan Twitter: @felixonmars Wiki: http://felixc.at