According to https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers (see http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html as well), only the following driver versions support distinct sets of hardware nvidia-drivers-96 nvidia-drivers-173 nvidia-drivers-304 nvidia-drivers-340 nvidia-drivers-375 (presumably 375 has now been replaced by 378, but I'm not sure) Gentoo additionally packages versions 346, 352, 355, 358, 361, 361.45, 367, and 370. I think these are in fact essentially dead versions replaced by 378. It seems to be no coincidence that they are also the versions that require <x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.99:=. Even the old version 304 supports xorg-server-1.19. I would like to remove xorg-server-1.18*. Can we drop versions 346, 352, 355, 358, 361, 361.45, 367, 370, and perhaps 375?
I'd have to think about the branches that might not be needed. Some obscure hardware and some applications regularly turn out to require special versions.
I found a new link that sheds a bit of light: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html 375 is a latest "long lived" branch, and 378 is the latest "short lived" branch, so both should probably stay. Marking as a blocker of bug 611350, because I plan to remove vulnerable xorg-server-1.18 versions.
Created attachment 468122 [details] patch.gz How about the attached patch? (gzip'd due to size) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: Drop old versions Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/611712 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/Manifest | 46 -- .../files/nvidia-drivers-346.16-pax-constify.patch | 25 - .../files/nvidia-drivers-346.16-pax-usercopy.patch | 47 -- .../files/nvidia-drivers-355.06-pax.patch | 102 ---- .../files/nvidia-drivers-361.28-pax.patch | 351 ------------- .../files/nvidia-drivers-364.12-pax.patch | 398 --------------- .../files/nvidia-drivers-367.35-pax.patch | 404 --------------- .../files/nvidia-drivers-367.57-pax.patch | 391 --------------- .../files/nvidia-drivers-367.57-profiles-rc.patch | 11 - .../files/nvidia-drivers-370.28-profiles-rc.patch | 11 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/metadata.xml | 1 - .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-346.96-r6.ebuild | 527 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-346.96-r7.ebuild | 528 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.79-r4.ebuild | 526 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-352.79-r5.ebuild | 525 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-355.11-r4.ebuild | 499 ------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-355.11-r5.ebuild | 502 ------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-358.16-r5.ebuild | 538 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-358.16-r6.ebuild | 539 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.42-r1.ebuild | 529 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.42.ebuild | 528 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers-361.45.18-r1.ebuild | 529 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.45.18.ebuild | 528 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-364.19-r1.ebuild | 547 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-364.19-r2.ebuild | 548 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-367.57-r1.ebuild | 551 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-367.57-r2.ebuild | 552 --------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-370.28-r1.ebuild | 551 -------------------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-370.28-r2.ebuild | 552 --------------------- 29 files changed, 11386 deletions(-)
