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

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:09:04 -0500
Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:

> 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

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. 

Cheers,

Conrad

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Conrad J. Sabatier
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