Bug#802597: glx-diversion: glx-diversions outputs confusing messages and crete uneeded directory

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Wed Oct 21 15:18:28 UTC 2015


On 2015-10-21 15:53, Eric Valette wrote:
> Why the hell does it gives impression that it creates arm link on x64 machine?
> Why does it create uneeded directories?

Since we cannot know which foreign architectures will be installed, too.
The nvidia driver is available for amd64, i386 and armhf. Having foreign
i386 on a amd64 host is quite common, so there is no point in managing
the diversions separately. And the diversions have been very fragile
before unifying them into one glx-diversions package.
Also for glx-alternative-nvidia it is important to be sure all three
architectures are in sync w.r.t. the diversions, since we want one
alternative to manage all architectures.


Andreas



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