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Bug 437188 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers USE=tools does not install media-video/nvidia-settings
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers USE=tools does not install media-video/nvidia-sett...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-10-04 15:24 UTC by Till Schäfer
Modified: 2014-01-13 21:44 UTC (History)
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Description Till Schäfer 2012-10-04 15:24:15 UTC 
The tools use-flag should install nvidia-settings as dependency of nvidia-drivers when activated. This is not the case. 

equery uses nvidia-drivers
tools : Installs additional tools such as nvidia-settings


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-10-04 16:26:28 UTC 
It should install /opt/bin/nvidia-settings quite nicely.
Comment 2 Till Schäfer 2012-10-04 16:35:03 UTC 
It is included in the package. I was not aware of this, because there is the seperater package. What is the reason to have a nvidia-settings package in this case? Having two possible ways to install it is a bit confusing.
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-10-04 16:49:50 UTC 
History, mostly. Look through bugzilla for all the (now closed) bugs about nvidia-settings. :)
Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-10-04 17:56:04 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> It is included in the package. I was not aware of this, because there is the
> seperater package. What is the reason to have a nvidia-settings package in
> this case? Having two possible ways to install it is a bit confusing.

Some people want the ability to hack on nvidia-settings and modify it and install it separately rather than the binary that went through QA with the drivers.