Fix nvidia-like ports, help needed

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 04:36:08PM -0700, John Hein wrote:
> One of the issues with 'alternatives' implementations is that they are
> not selectable per-user (including non superuser).
> 
> In this particular case (libGL), also what about the native X server
> vs. virtual X servers that support using the mesa lib (per-application
> selection)?
> 
> In addition to something like alternatives, another option is to allow
> installation of conflicting files (like libGL.so in this case) to
> separate directories and specify which to use using a path (like
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or rpath at compile time).  That can help with the
> aforementioned per-user and per-application variation.
> 
> Personally, I prefer the "path" method over something like alternative
> sym links (e.g., debian/redhat alternatives).  There can still be a
> front-end tool to get at the "alternates" configuration information,
> but I like the ability to set a path rather than a sym link.

I tend to agree.  While I currently do not see clearly the best solution to
the problem, when I see "etc/alternative.d" I want to unsee it ASAP.

For nvidia driver, it might be easier to simply provide a knob in
xorg-server and libGL and perhaps register a dependency on nvidia-driver;
no need to invent some cumbersome framework.

./danfe