Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for the record, here are some source packages (taken directly
> from latest pkg-nvidia git) for your convenience:
>
> http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/bumblebee_3.1-1.dsc
> http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~b2c8/debian/pkg-nvidia-20130409/primus_0~20130225-1.dsc
>
bumblebee has been uploaded, but I still have questions about primus.
primus has "Recommends: primus-libs-ia32 [amd64]", this means by
default it will pull in some dependency if the users have i386 added
to his architecture list. I doubt this is desirable for all cases,
users should just install primus-libs:i386 when he needs to run 32bit
applications, but not automated by the package manager in such a way?
A nice error message indicating that needing a 32bit version of
primus-libs would be sufficient to guide the user to install, IMHO.
What do you think?
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Regards,
Aron Xu
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