Bug#1102628: nvidia-cuda-toolkit: please make dependency on drivers optional

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 4/11/25 10:32, Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
> Source: nvidia-cuda-toolkit
> Version: 12.2.140~12.2.2-2

> Would it be possible to make the dependency on the Nvidia drivers optional?
> 
> This way I could "cross compile" CUDA code from a device without Nvidia 
> GPUs to a device which has.

That already works.
apt-get install --no-install-recommends nvidia-cuda-toolkit does not 
pull in nvidia-kernel-dkms or nvidia-driver, but it does pull in 
libcuda1 (which is also built from src:nvidia-graphics-drivers).


Andreas