Bug 319329

Summary:	media-video/nvidia-settings: make gtk+ support optional?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	hal <laservader>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gef.kornflakes, nikoli, treecleaner
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description hal 2010-05-12 07:05:49 UTC

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

Comment 1 Gef 2010-05-28 20:36:29 UTC

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/

Comment 2 hal 2010-05-31 16:20:44 UTC

(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

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-01-07 11:42:00 UTC

if I don't misremember, recent nvidia-drivers versions make this unneeded

Comment 4 hal 2017-01-08 20:09:39 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-01-12 16:37:21 UTC

Please use x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers[tools] instead.