Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:16 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote:
>
> you are right if you look at the past 2 years (possibly more, I can't
> recall it). I remember times when X.org did not provide these modules
> at all and NVIDIA did.
I'm pretty sure XFree86 shipped these modules before the nvidia driver
even existed.
> Anyway: NVIDIA tries to avoid destoying things / being destroyed by
> new packages. I think it is a good idea to install the modules
> versionly named e.g. libglx.so.1-7.3rc1 and libGLcore.so.1-7.3rc1 and
> link it to libglx.so and libGLcore.so
>
> This way any new install will not destroy what existed and it will be
> more easy to switch back to a working version. Especially experimental
> stuff.
There are mechanisms to achieve this with Debian driver packages. Don't
blame the packaging system for unpackaged software messing with files it
controls and getting burned.
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