Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:14:35 -0600
From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest available version (290.10)?
Message-ID: <20111224021435.1c3a8c2a@cox.net>
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:09:04 -0500 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> > wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:09:23 +0000 > > RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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. =A0Not awfully important, just curious. > >> > =A0:-) > >> > > >> > >> =A0x11-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. > > > > Interesting. =A0I didn't realize the nvidia-driver port had been > > around that long. > > > > Thanks for clearing up that (slightly) troubling mystery. =A0:-) >=20 > Also see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D121930 Ah, thank you for that. Looks like some very sound reasoning. Makes sense to me now. I had a sort of vague notion it might be something along these lines, but danfe stated it very clearly.=20 Cheers, Conrad --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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