OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du lundi 08 août 2011, vers 16:36, Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> disait :
>> Therefore, conky should be moved back into contrib. > No, please! > I waited for so long to see conky back in main! Sure, but currently, there is a problem with the policy. But I hope we will find a way to keep it or get it back quickly into main. >> It seems that nvidia.c could be provided into an alternate version that >> uses nvidia-settings if installed. From: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Method_1_-_nvidia-settings >> >> $ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t >> 41 >> >> If you can provide the name of other settings, I could come up with a >> patch to solve this. > I really hope that we can find a way to have conky (at least the > conky-std and conky-cli binary packages) in main! > If I understand correctly, you are proposing to use system calls to > invoke the nvidia-settings command, if installed. That would turn the > Build-Depends on nvidia-settings into a Suggests and let all binary > packages built from the conky source package to be allowed in main. I > hope this solution is viable. Thanks for proposing it! Yes. And I propose to implement it but I cannot test it since I don't use the proprietary nvidia driver. -- Vincent Bernat ☯ http://vincent.bernat.im /* * Hash table gook.. */ 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c
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