[Slackbuilds-users] nvidia-{driver, kernel} [was: Updates - 20120801.1]

[King Beowulf]

On 08/03/2012 01:19 AM, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2012 01:11:15 King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 08/02/2012 09:50 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
>>> sorry, I'll grab the occasion for just a small question: why in the
>>> new version the GL headers from mesa are substituted too by nvidia's
>>> ones?
>>>
>>> Matteo
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>> There is a bit of a difference in the two sets of headers and I think
>> mixing and matching Mesa and Nvidia is generally a bad idea.  After all,
>> you should have the headers to compile against the libGL you are
>> actually using.   Also, I ran into a error a while back- can't remember
>> what though - that wanted Nvidia headers since I was using the nvidia
>> driver and its libraries.
> Note that nvidia itself stopped installing those headers quite a while ago.
> See http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-260.19.12-driver.html for
> reference.
>
> Grs,
> Heinz
>
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Ah yes, but they did not imply the nvidia headers are not needed or 
deprecated.  Nvidia recognizes that most people just need the driver and 
libs and won't compile against them. That, after all is the job of the 
distro package maintainers.

What I  will do, on the next update, is leave them as *-nvidia and use 
nvidia-switch to make them optionally available.

Ed