Re: seg faulting

"Guy K. Kloss" <guy.kloss-R/[email protected]> Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:10:07 +1200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.visualpython.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/09/12 13:57, Hugh Fisher wrote:
> nvidia-settings is part of the nvidia binary driver for Linux, which 
> means the Ubuntu people will almost certainly shrug and say "nothing we 
> can do about it." And they're right.

Well, that's true. However, some of these problems can be circumvented
by stating certain constraints in the meta-data of packages. E. g. that
things are incompatible with certain versions, etc. Therefore problems
can be resolved when installing, rather than providing an unexpected
trip wire to the user.

So things can be taken care of at the level of packaging, rather than
tampering with a black box binary package that is shipped for
convenience installable through the Debian/Ubuntu package management.

At least let the package maintainer know! If nobody knows, people with
better overview over the environment won't be able to help!

Guy

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