Bug#747837: nvidia-settings: upload to main

Michael Gilbert mgilbert at debian.org
Mon May 12 01:45:59 UTC 2014


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> AFAIK, this package is in contrib because nvidia-settings is useless
> without the proprietary nvidia driver installed (nvidia-settings
> certainly doesn't work with nouveau), which satisfies the definition
> of "contrib" as per Policy 2.2.2.

Chromium uses libxnvctrl to query whether or not the NV-CONTROL
extension is available, so it isn't entirely useless without the
proprietary driver's presence.

Best wishes,
Mike



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