Steven Altermatt writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
> "Installing the source package pulls in nvidia-glx via Recommends.
> nvidia-glx in turn requires a kernel module, so apt-get and aptitude look
> for some way to get a kernel module, find DKMS, and install the -dkms
> package and its requirements,
Well, thanks for the detailed explanation. I believe I understand it better
now.
Russ Allbery writes:
"Installing the source package pulls in nvidia-glx via Recommends.
nvidia-glx in turn requires a kernel module, so apt-get and aptitude look
for some way to get a kernel module, find DKMS, and ins
Steven Altermatt writes:
> Thanks for your explanations, although I do have a couple ?s. I have
> been investigating this issue further lately but was unable to send an
> e-mail due to surgery on my right hand. I see that there are 2 source
> pkgs, nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source &
> nvidia-ker
Russ Allberry wrote:
"I think the solution for your particular problem would be to downgrade the
Recommends of nvidia-glx from nvidia-kernel-source to a Suggests. I'm not
sure if that would cause any other problems. At first glance, my guess is
that anyone installing nvidia-kernel-source probabl
Steven Altermatt writes:
>> nvidia-kernel-dkms
>> Recommends kernel headers -- so you hopefully have the headers for
>> your running kernel installed and the module can be built automatically
> Only if one wants this done automatically, shouldn't be forced upon the
> user. Which happened becaus
Sorry about not Cc:ing the bug.
>apt (and all the package managers) not default to install recommeds by
>default. Therefore you see these extra packages being installed.
This makes no sense, apt and synaptic do install recommends as depends by
default, and so does aptitude as far as I know. Still
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