Bug 414679 – xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.3[video_cards_nvidia] should alternatively depend on x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[gtk]

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dmitry Kustov 2012-05-05 07:17:59 UTC]

There are old x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.xx installed in the system (NV4 video card is supported only by them). They don't need nvidia-settings because they contain their own one.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade the system by "emerge -uDN system"



Expected Results:  
The xfce4 plugin should probably depend on either nvidia-settings or
nvidia-drivers[gtk]

[Comment 1 Elijah "Armageddon" El Lazkani (amd64 AT) 2012-05-05 07:26:47 UTC]

Please do not CC arches on your own, there is no reason for us to be here.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:08:51 UTC]

The ebuilds should probably read:

    video_cards_nvidia? (
        || x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers media-video/nvidia-settings )
    )

so that when the older nvidia-drivers are installed they properly block nvidia-settings.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:12:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
>     video_cards_nvidia? (
>         || x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers media-video/nvidia-settings )
>     )

    video_cards_nvidia? (
        || x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[gtk] media-video/nvidia-settings )
    )

Maybe this?

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:19:09 UTC]

It's there for the /usr/lib/libXNVCtrl.a library:

if test x"$enable_xnvctrl" = x"yes"; then
    AC_DEFINE([HAVE_NVIDIA], [1], [Define to 1 if media-video/nvidia-drivers installed])
    NVIDIA_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/NVCtrl"
    NVIDIA_LIBS="-lX11 -lXext -lXNVCtrl"
    enable_xnvctrl=yes
AC_SUBST([NVIDIA_CFLAGS])
AC_SUBST([NVIDIA_LIBS])
fi

So whatever provides that should be in the dep...

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:21:38 UTC]

$ qfile -v libXNVCtrl.a
media-video/nvidia-settings-295.40 (/usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a)

Does the older nvidia-drivers provide this? If not, then the dep looks correct to me...

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-05-05 16:41:43 UTC]

I don't see a code for building libXNVCtrl in any of the nvidia-drivers ebuilds. 

Feel free to reopen the bug with a filelist from a package where libXNVCtrl is listed; like an older nvidia-drivers.

[Comment 7 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-09-25 19:24:41 UTC]

*** Bug 561338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***