I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver. The nvidia-driver package is not installed. Instead, the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are installed.
While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that installing nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, gdm3, libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages. Questions: 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed? 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?
