[arch-dev-public] Proposal to change the nvidia-utils package to allow for better bumblebee integration

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 13.03.2013 22:15, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> Le mercredi 13 mars 2013 06:18:15 Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit :
>> I propose a change to the nvidia-utils that is as follows:
>>
>> 1. Move all libs to /usr/lib/nvidia
>> 2. Create nvidia-utils-helper package that only adds a
>> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia file containing "/usr/lib/nvidia"
>> 3. make nvidia-utils depend on nvidia-utils-helper
>>
> 1. package nvidia-utils without libGL.so and libGL.so.1 symlinks
> 2. package nvidia-libgl with these symlinks.
> 3. the package bumblebee could provide a /usr/lib/bumblebee that provide
> libGL.so and libGL.so. symlinks and conflicts with nvidia-libgl

Shouldn't libglx.so go into that package as well? But then it wouldn't 
be correct to call it nvidia-libgl anymore. I like the symlink idea.