[Bug 2878] Review request: nvidia-modprobe - Load the NVIDIA kernel module and create NVIDIA character device files

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https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2878

Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> 2013-07-13 23:48:42 CEST ---
Well, I have reverted my former idea. The problem is that it is lot of work to
maintain several separate packages from the same driver version. 
The previous idea was that tools like nvidia-settings can be shared between
some legacy series. But It is not true anymore according to rfbz#2852, so I'm
reintroducing the tools into the driver package.

The reason why the tools was splitted and built from source was because nvidia
used a compiler that didn't set the exectack flag, and it wasn't possible to
set that flag on i386 binaries. (So this lead to SELinux denials). I'm still
checking if this is still the case for 173xx/96xx, but 304xx and later worked
fine on i686.

@knut, the problem you have experienced was because the nvidia cuda package set
a requirement on nvidia-settings and others tools as a package (capability),
not as a binary. Now the updated package will virtually provide that
capability, so that will avoid the need to split into many sub-packages.

@Leight, sorry to have taken your time for such not productive content.
Thxfully this helped me to have something else in mind and was able to review
my plan, so it will be easier to maintain the driver.

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