[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Mon Jul 9 09:17:27 PDT 2007


Daniel Griffith wrote:
> Seperating package names and package file names is a ghastly solution
> to the problem, if I want to manually download a package called
> nvidia-drivers, I should be downloading a file called
> nvidia-drivers.***, not NVDAgraphics.***.

The graphics lets you know it includes the video drivers, plus the entire
OpenGL stack.   nvidia-drivers would be too generic - is it nvidia graphics
drivers or drivers for the nqe ethernet chips or one of the other NForce
motherboard chipsets?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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