FS#9596 - libwfb.so simplification - xorg-server provides
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Opened by Paul Bredbury (brebs) - Sunday, 17 February 2008, 14:32 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 16 March 2008, 22:29 GMT
Opened by Paul Bredbury (brebs) - Sunday, 17 February 2008, 14:32 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 16 March 2008, 22:29 GMT
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Hi, xorg-server should be the only package to provide
libwfb.so, and it should be provided as a simple file,
without needing to mess with symlinks, or compete with
nvidia-utils in .install files over whose is loaded. Those
.install files can end up with the file not being found at
all, if people like me uninstall xorg-server to install
xorg-server-sid (in AUR).
Nvidia only provide libwfb.so because *old* versions of xorg-server (before 1.3) *didn't* provide it. Xorg's libwfb.so should be used in preference. Reference: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202978 (bug was written by an Nvidia employee, apparently). All that we want is simply: $ find /usr/lib -name libwfb\* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so (owned by xorg-server) So xorg-server.install for 1.4.0.90-6 can be completely removed, and nvidia-utils can be simplified. This work with an nvidia geforce 8800GTS 512. |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 16 March 2008, 22:29 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed on the xorg side. Nvidia-utils still applies the dirty symlink. Xorg-server is built in a way that nvidia-utils can always restore the symlink on uninstall and will force the symlink to the xorg version on every upgrade.
Sunday, 16 March 2008, 22:29 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed on the xorg side. Nvidia-utils still applies the dirty symlink. Xorg-server is built in a way that nvidia-utils can always restore the symlink on uninstall and will force the symlink to the xorg version on every upgrade.