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Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest
 available version (290.10)?
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:41:42 -0600
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> As an aside, I've also been wondering for quite a while now why the
> nvidia-driver port isn't under the x11-drivers category, rather than
> simply x11.  Not awfully important, just curious.  :-)
> 

 x11-drivers wasn't created until the monolithic xorg port was broken-up
 a few years ago. The nvidia-driver port predates that and it's just not
 been moved.