Bug 437188

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers USE=tools does not install media-video/nvidia-settings
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer, spock, xarthisius
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497984
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.