libxnvctrl status?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02/04/2014 12:56 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 4 February 2014 11:34, Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> but what is the benefit of having them in Fedora if they can't be used without the
>> proprietary blobs?
> 
> I've always wondered the same thing.

IIRC libXNVCtrl was introduced because some desktop sensors applets could use it
to show gpu temperature. Specifically the gnome2 sensors applet. repoquery seems to
confirm this:

# repoquery -q --whatrequires libXNVCtrl

hwloc-0:1.7-2.fc20.x86_64
hwloc-libs-0:1.7-2.fc20.i686
hwloc-libs-0:1.7-2.fc20.x86_64
libXNVCtrl-devel-0:169.12-9.fc20.i686
libXNVCtrl-devel-0:169.12-9.fc20.x86_64
mate-sensors-applet-0:1.6.1-1.fc20.i686
mate-sensors-applet-0:1.6.1-1.fc20.x86_64
oyranos-0:0.4.0-12.fc20.x86_64

For cases like this it seems useful to have libXNVCtrl around in Fedora to me,
as it enhances existing open packages when used with the nvidia drivers.

Otherwise the only way for users to get these features would be to rebuild
our packages, which seems undesirable.

Things like the nvidia control panel however, which can be in there own
package just fine should not be in Fedora IMHO.

Note I'm not saying anything about the bit-rottenness of libXNVCtrl, I'm only
arguing that it can be useful to have in Fedora.

Regards,

Hans