[aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Rob Til Freedmen <
rob.til.freedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 2013 6:10 AM, "Rob Til Freedmen" <rob.til.freedman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> There is a dependency in nvidia/PKGBUILD which is totally wrong
> >> depends=( [...] "nvidia-utils=${pkgver}")
> >>
> >> It leads to a circular dependency at ***build*** time and isn't really
> > needed
> >> at run time for nvidia to work.
> >>
> >> depends=( [...] "nvidia-utils") should be enough to pull it in when
> >> installing/updating
> >>
> >> I've reported it last year but didn't got any response from the
> > maintainer.
> >>
> >
> > Have you tried installing different versions of nvidia-utils and nvidia?
> > There's a reason for that versions dependency.
>
> Do you mean something like nvidia-3xx and nvidia-utils-295?
> For what reason would you want it?
>
> Or do you mean nvidia-3xx/nvidia-utils-3xx and also
> nvidia-295/nvidia-utils-295?
> How would it possible works?
>
> Or do you think there are two different versions with the same name
> but different versions?
>


He meant having, for example, nvidia 313.18 and nvidia-utils 310.32
installed at the same time.
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