[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

[Ariel]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Ariel <asdebian at dsgml.com> writes:

>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:

> That's what I mean by own.  As long as those diversions weren't removed,
> nvidia-glx should never have been installable, and if those diversions
> were removed, that should have been followed by removing the postrm
> script... oh.  Oh, I get it.  You removed the package but didn't purge it,
> and the postrm script removes the diversions on both remove and purge.
> Aie.  Yeah.

That makes a lot of sense, I went back and forth between the packages at 
one point.

I wonder if this is in any way related to bug #366910 (which I reported), 
either that this explains it, or that my fix made it worse.

>> And does this mean nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx can both be
>> installed at the same time?
>
> Not yet, but it makes it possible eventually.
>
>> (Although, that's probably not useful since the kernel module can't be.)
>
> Yeah, that's still a problem.

I assume no one is current attempting to change this. But is it a goal 
for the future, or is it just too much trouble?

(It would be nice, so I can have multiple monitors, since I already have 
the card. But then again new low end nvidia cards are not very expensive.)

BTW, thanks for your help (and the packages).

 	-Ariel