On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:50, Peter wrote: > Also, I find it absolutely fascinating that the only people against this > concept are devs, and the only people for it are users. Remember that > users are your customers. Every effort should be made to keep them happy. Considering that we aren't paid, I think that every _affordable_ effort should be made, but making more complex maintainership for devs just to satisfy a couple of users, when the advantages are really minimal, it's not exactly a good choice, IMHO.
> Here, with the unified nvidia, the intent was to REDUCE ebuilds and > simplify installation process. I thought the recommendation of a meta > nvidia ebuild is a worthy one worth consideration. nvidia-glx depends on nvidia-kernel already, no? That would be enough, for me. > nVidia upstream combines all the products together > in their .run files. There is minimal time difference between having the > entire suite installed versus each one individually. Well depends how you see it. If you just build it when you update the drivers, yeah there's a minimal difference. But if you have more than one kernel (for whatever reason), and you want to have the latest kernel on all of them, it's way faster to just use nvidia-kernel. Then there's the point I've already said, about mixing the kernel-level with generic userland stuff: for Gentoo/FreeBSD I need it to be split, or I'd have to recreate a copy ebuild especially for FBSD... and that not only sucks from an user POV but also from a maintenance POV. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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