Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:14:51 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposition to make nvidia driver stop overwritting files Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSsrRh7BE4NsGxPACJ3dzG5EEZezSexkVxXKcFWOArEdjA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120628082546.GA46785@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120606131623.GA82148@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120628042051.GA8166@FreeBSD.org> <20120628080012.GT2337@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120628082546.GA46785@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:00:12AM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:20:51AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > Thanks for not touching 8.x. This is probably the last known branch > that > > > currently more or less reliably works (the trend was broken > Januaryish). > > > > It seems that this statement makes a carte blanche to claim that current > > situation with nvidia driver port just demonstrates complete lack of > > care from the maintainer, for quite lot a time? > > If by "complete lack of care" you mean having fully working four branches > of > the driver accurately covering broad range of FreeBSD source base, then I'd > have to say yes, but are we talking in the same language? All I was saying > that there is a sad tendency that X+1 branch will less likely work than X > on > the same hardware. > > > > Include-dances in libmap.conf are standard way in freenix world to > solve > > > problems like this one, but right now I see this scenario happening on > a > > > developer's box rather that on user's. User would probably just want > > > single libGL+friends implementation that best suits his/her gfx card. > > > > So you completely ignore/do not care about users of hybrid machines. > > Nice. > > No, just didn't think about it. Good point, thanks for bringing it up. > Now > it's pretty clear that we need more complicated, but more functional > solution. > > ./danfe > What happend with this proposal? I liked the idea with libmap.conf. There is one more reason to have the possibility to have several different drivers installed: Consider someone trying to setup a common base system that will be used on several different types machines. Seems a bit much to require different images just for different drivers. Best regards Andreas
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