Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 01:39:49 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster? Message-ID: <CAGFTUwMPV9Tge6%2BGZO879KD7dh6Sr6%2BfPGK97SGvRndBitMTjg@mail.gmail.com>
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> You are correct. It wouldn't be NO_REINSTALL. > > But would you guys be interested in some creative way to make this work? > Perhaps xorg-server could be modified to first check "pkg_info | grep > nvidia-driver", and if this comes up true, then the xorg-server port and > package would not install libgl.*. > > I could do something like this, but before I work on it and put forth a > proof of concept, I would first like to hear good reasons why I this > might be a bad idea. It's a bad idea because it's sensitive to the order of (de)installation. It's always been unfortunate that nvidia-driver collides with xorg-server and libGL. It would be better if xorg-server and libGL were patched to install a linker script instead of the libGL.so and libglx.so symlinks, which would favor the nvidia-specific libraries over the generic libraries if the former were present. Or if nvidia-driver didn't replace the shared libraries of the other ports, but used additions to libmap.conf(5) instead. b.
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