nvidia-settings requires gtk+ as a dependency. this is fine in case one is using nvidia-settings on a desktop system. no gtk+ = no gui. but there are situations where a gui is not needed necessarily. it would be enough to use nvidia-settings through its cli. e.g. a minimal setup for an htpc based on xbmc, where no qt and gtk environments are needed at all. therefore it would be welcome to have an USE="gtk" to make gui support optional. though i can't tell whether this would be possible or not. maybe gtk is necessary by design? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge nvidia-settings Actual Results: gtk gets pulled in as a dependency Expected Results: make gtk optional via an useflag
Hi, Looking at the distfiles and the source tree, it doesn't really seems doable whitout seriously messing with the code. However, this could be something to talk about with aplattner from nvidia http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-settings/
(In reply to comment #1) > Hi, > > Looking at the distfiles and the source tree, it doesn't really seems doable > whitout seriously messing with the code. However, this could be something to > talk about with aplattner from nvidia > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/nvidia-settings/ > thanks for your hint. i filed a bug at freedesktop: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28332
if I don't misremember, recent nvidia-drivers versions make this unneeded
Weird how fast time passes. Since I haven't been using Nvidia hardware lately I'm not able to confirm. If someone could verify this we could close this report.
Please use x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[tools] instead.
