187301 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 depends on nvidia-settings

Bug 187301 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 depends on nvidia-settings

Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 depends on nvidia-settings

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-07-31 22:25 UTC by Andrew Hurst
Modified:	2014-01-13 21:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	497984
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Description Andrew Hurst 2007-07-31 22:25:31 UTC

'emerge nvidia-drivers' pulls in nvidia-settings.

Useful though the tool is, it is not needed by the drivers, therefore not a dependency, and should hence be installed optionally, not automatically.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge nvidia-drivers
2. Get a package you didn't want installed
3.

Actual Results:  
see description

Expected Results:  
perhaps an ebuild message could mention that nvidia-settings is available.

Perhaps later versions of the driver depend on the nvidia-settings lib (??) but 1.0.7185 does not.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-31 22:27:39 UTC

So emerge it w/ USE="-gtk"