Bug#946978: Package conflict with nvidia drivers and primus with bumblebee->tries to pull legacy drivers

[Anes Lihovac]

Package: primus
Version: 0~20150328-7

When trying to install bumblebee with primus, apt will resolve a bunch of
legacy packages which simply are not wanted:

e.g.:

LC_ALL=en_US sudo apt install nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd primus
 nvidia-driver bumblebee-nvidia
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-driver is already the newest version (430.64-3).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libegl-mesa0:i386 libegl1:i386 libgbm1:i386 libnvidia-cbl
libnvidia-fatbinaryloader libnvidia-glvkspirv libnvidia-glvkspirv:i386
libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1 libnvidia-rtcore libopengl0:i386
libwayland-server0:i386 nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-egl-icd:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  bbswitch-dkms bumblebee libegl1-nvidia libegl1-nvidia:i386
libgl1-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libnvidia-legacy-390xx-cfg1
libnvidia-legacy-390xx-glcore libnvidia-legacy-390xx-ml1
nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd-i386:i386
  nvidia-legacy-390xx-alternative nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms
nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-390xx-vdpau-driver
nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx primus-libs primus-libs:i386
primus-libs-ia32:i386 socat xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx
Recommended packages:
  nvidia-nonglvnd-vulkan-icd nvidia-nonglvnd-vulkan-icd:i386
nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver | libnvidia-legacy-390xx-cuda1
libgl1-nvidia-legacy-390xx-glvnd-glx | libgl1-nvidia-legacy-390xx-glx
nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 nvidia-driver-libs
nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-vulkan-common
nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bbswitch-dkms bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia libegl1-nvidia
libegl1-nvidia:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386
libnvidia-legacy-390xx-cfg1 libnvidia-legacy-390xx-glcore
libnvidia-legacy-390xx-ml1 nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd
nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd:i386
  nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd-i386:i386 nvidia-legacy-390xx-alternative
nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-support
nvidia-legacy-390xx-vdpau-driver nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx primus
primus-libs primus-libs:i386 primus-libs-ia32:i386 socat
  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-390xx
0 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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