[aur-general] NVIDIA drivers

[Rob Til Freedmen]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Would that make any sense?
Why would I want it? Really?

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