Troubled by the fact that xfce4-sensors-plugin is dependent on nvidia-settings i tried to get rid of the dependency and still have the desired functionality in xfce4-sensors-plugin. Reason for this is problem installing newer nvidia-drivers when nvidia-settings is installed and because of the plans to remove nvidia-settings from portage. I did the following: 1. uninstalled nvidia-settings 2. compiled nvidia-drivers with "tools" and "static-libs" useflag 3. modified the ebuild for xfce4-sensors-plugin to be dependent on nvidia-drivers instead of nvidia-settings. 4. recompiled xfce4-sensors-plugin Result: xfce4-sensors-plugin can show gpu temperatures as expected. I have solved the problem but i believe others will be happy if someone can drop the nvidia-settings dependency in the official build. A step closer to the final goal of removing nvidia-settings from portage.
commit 416d2886ba997c735c1ee96860f26496dd3a4cf0 Author: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> Date: Tue Apr 26 20:17:53 2016 +0200 xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin: Adopt to new nvdia-drivers situation Add optional x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[tools,static-libs] as provider of media-video/nvidia-settings Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580874 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28 Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=416d2886ba997c735c1ee96860f26496dd3a4cf0
