x11/nvidia-{driver, settings, xconfig}: why not the latest available version (290.10)?

[Eitan Adler]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:09:23 +0000
> RW <rwmaillists at 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.  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.
>
> Interesting.  I didn't realize the nvidia-driver port had been around
> that long.
>
> Thanks for clearing up that (slightly) troubling mystery.  :-)

Also see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121930

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Eitan Adler