http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-256.52.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 1. no information wag given to user about the migration of nvidia-settings to nvidia-drivers leaving them in a WTH status 2. What's the point of media-video/nvidia-settings package now? Not this "NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility" for sure So please, either remove the package or fix it adding a blocker against nvidia-drivers[gtk] and restoring its functionality.
It should have been renamed to reflect only providing the libs.
For reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/304255 Beside the exact subject of this bug: @cardoe: the problem in providing a separate x11-drivers/nvidia-settings package (with proper blockers against nvidia-drivers[gtk])?
$ qlist -e nvidia-settings /usr/include/NVCtrl/NVCtrl.h /usr/include/NVCtrl/NVCtrlLib.h /usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-256.52/FRAMELOCK.txt.bz2 /usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-256.52/NV-CONTROL-API.txt.bz2 /usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321061#c95 for reasoning.
WAIT! There is another serious problem with removing the nvidia-settings utility from the nvidia-settings package! The gtk USE might be an appropriate substitute for current drivers=cards. However, there are users (like the one i am maintaining this system for) that have older cards that can only handle up to version 173.14.28 (at the moment, maybe there will be updates for 173 series to come, I don't know...). This effectively removed nvidia-settings from this system leaving me in the mentioned WTH situation ;-> I uncommented the respective lines in the ebuild and the utility is back, but this can't be the solution. (you have to know the display is such a crap you can't differentiate gray from white without heavily adjusting the gamma ;-> ) If the 173 series won't have nvidia-settings in them with the gtk use flag, there has to be e.g. a gtk use flag for nvidia-settings as well that results in a block, if nvidia-drivers >=260 series are installed with gtk use or sth the like. That would be a good solution IMO anyway, as building nvidia-settings and not getting the gui and just the libraries without a use flag indicating this seems rather illogical to me. just my .02 EUR.
This is now resolved so that you can install both at the same time and use whichever one you prefer. Nothing is missing from either package.
