> The difference is that if hddtemp is not installed, the hddtemp module > simply fails to run the hddtemp program. But if libXNVCtrl is not > installed, the whole program will fail to load because of the missing > shared library (assuming that libXNVCtrl even is a shared library... > back when it was included in nvidia-settings it was only shipped as a > static library). But libNVCtrl could be packaged separately (as it is GPL2) and sensors-applet could depend on it, then sensors-applet would load fine and it could all work as I described previously. > > I think we decided in > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=434887> that that way > to fix this is to make the various sensors-applet modules into DSOs that > can be dlopen'd (or glib equivalent) at runtime. However it's something > that I know next to nothing about, so I haven't been able to do it yet. > I will get round to it eventually though unless you do first! :) > This is also an option, but it would require a large reworking of sensors-applet which at the moment I (like you) don't have time to devote to, so in the meantime this would be a good solution.
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