Vincent Cheng <vch...@debian.org> writes: > From an user's perspective, if I "apt-get install nvidia-settings" and > it doesn't bring in a set of proprietary nvidia packages as > dependencies, then I can justifiably say nvidia-settings is RC-buggy > because nvidia-settings is broken and useless in such a scenario. Hence > it must depend on nvidia-driver | nvidia-glx | nvidia-alternative (or > whatever the correct metapackage is), but that's not possible if > nvidia-settings were to be moved to main.
> The only possible solution I can think of is for Andreas to distribute > nvidia-settings as two separate source packages, e.g. src:libxnvctrl in > main that builds the shared lib and dev packages, and > src:nvidia-settings in contrib that builds nvidia-settings. I thought source packages in main could provide binary packages in contrib. Am I just making that up? If not, then the source package and library could go into main and just the nvidia-settings binary package into contrib. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
