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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: nvidia-driver ports in improper place in /usr/ports
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>Number:         121930
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       x11/nvidia-driver ports in improper place in /usr/ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    danfe
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 20 23:20:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Sat May 30 21:29:59 UTC 2009
>Last-Modified:  Sat May 30 21:29:59 UTC 2009
>Originator:     David O'Brien
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dragon.NUXI.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #592: Sat Feb 16 21:08:06 PST 2008 rootk@dragon.NUXI.org:/src/fbsd/sys/i386/compile/DRAGON i386


	
>Description:
	The nvidia-driver ports (/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver,
	/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-71xx, and
	/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-96xx) live in /usr/ports/x11, but
	yet we have /usr/ports/x11-drivers for X drivers.  All other
	drivers of this type live in /usr/ports/x11-drivers

>How-To-Repeat:

	$ ls -1 -d /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-*

>Fix:

	Repo copy
	/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
	/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-71xx
	/usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver-96xx
	to /usr/ports/x11-drivers

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->danfe 
Responsible-Changed-By: edwin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Mar 21 02:02:48 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121930 
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: danfe 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jul 23 15:57:04 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
While there're certainly a reason in your suggestion, I'd rather not 
touch things this very moment.  You see, this port is not just a pure 
driver in X.org's sense.  It combines kernel module, X.org module 
(driver), and a few shared libraries.  While some GNU/Linux 
distributions separate these bits into two or more packages, I currently 
see no strong reason for doing this, as nVidia's libraries are useless 
without kernel modules, and vice versa.  So I think we're actually 
winning here having it as a single port.  And given its "heterogenous" 
natute I think `x11' suits as better place than `x11-drivers' for it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121930 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: miwi 
State-Changed-When: Sat May 30 21:29:58 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
maintainer explained why x11/ here better is. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121930 
>Unformatted:
