[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#369316: Bug#369316: nvidia-glx: please make the glx part installable without the rest

[Andreas Beckmann]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> While I agree that the dependency makes life annoying for that particular
> case, not having the dependency causes all sorts of problems in the more
> common use case of a regular host.  nvidia-glx gets upgraded without
> upgrading the kernel module and then stops working, or the kernel module
> isn't installed and users are mystified over why the package doesn't run.
> I'm hesitant to change the dependency to a recommends because I think a
> lot more people will have difficulty getting the right set of packages
> installed and everything working (and continuing to work) if the
> dependency is less strict.
> 
> I'm not completely certain on this, and could be convinced, but I'm
> nervous about it.

A possible solution I see for this "problem" would be to move the
libraries to some nvidia-glx-core package, which is required by
nvidia-glx (so current setups won't be affected). Will be a bit work to
migrate the diversions and the trigger properly. We should decide on
this before we update the legacy packages.

Andreas