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Bug#338715: xserver-xorg: file conflict with nvidia-glx



On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:07:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:03:13AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > libglx is an xorg module.  It is originally provided by the XFree86 DDX.
> > Some drivers feel the need to provide an alternate version, and that's
> > great.  But nvidia's is entirely specific to nvidia.  xserver-xorg's
> > works with all the drivers in xserver-xorg.
> 
> > If xserver-xorg and nvidia-glx Replaces each other, as was the original
> > suggestion in this thread,
> 
> No, the suggestion was:
> 
>   Please add the necessary conflicts or replaces or whatever happens to be
>   appropriate in this case.
> 
> I don't claim to know what the appropriate technical solution is.  I am only
> asserting that the current behavior on the part of xserver-xorg is incorrect,
> per Debian policy and the RC bug policy for etch.

Ok, I'm going to go with the conflicts line alone, no replaces. The
replaces line may well break people's X installations because their
xorg.conf will be set up to use the nvidia module rather than the built-in
nv one, and thus X will fail to start for them. Simply conflicting will
allow them to keep a working server until nvidia-glx is fixed.

 - David Nusinow



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