x11/nvidia-driver incompatible with portmaster?

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at missouri.edu
Sun Jul 3 14:41:07 UTC 2011


On 07/03/2011 09:04 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:45:50PM +0000, b. f. wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:33:09PM +0000, b. f. wrote:
>> On second thought the renaming of these libraries is not very
>> convenient, since they are built by nvidia, and not necessary if their
>> mesa/xorg counterparts already have different names.
>
> As I said, it is useful for me on the hybrid laptop, where a switch
> selects the GPU attached to the panel. The startup script then would
> only need to create proper symlink, instead of delicate renaming
> of the libraries.

That sounds like a good reason to keep the original naming scheme.


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