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#1 2011-11-23 12:36:06

ssivil
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Registered: 2011-09-23
Posts: 28

Nvidia 290.10-1 upgrade confusion

Can someone please help me understand why after the upgrade yesterday, Pacman now lists nvidia 290.10-1 as an orphan.  After the upgrade, I have no issues... everything runs smoothly.

Also, after the upgrade, I now have a .nv folder in my home directory where the previous version didn't have one.

Thank you.

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#2 2011-11-23 14:15:03

kachelaqa
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Registered: 2010-09-26
Posts: 216

Re: Nvidia 290.10-1 upgrade confusion

Are you sure nvidia is a true orphan package? You should check using the command

pacman -Qtd

which will list all unrequired packages that are dependencies. Of course, without the -d option, nvidia would be listed - because it was not installed as a dependency.

As for the ".nv" directory: it's created by the OpenGL shader disk cache feature introduced with nvidia-290.x - see this phoronix article for details.

(PS: the opencl-nvidia package may now be listed as an orphan, because it has become an optional dependency of the nvidia-utils package).

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#3 2011-11-23 14:49:34

ssivil
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Registered: 2011-09-23
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Re: Nvidia 290.10-1 upgrade confusion

Yes, I'm positive.  After the update, I issued a pacman -Qdt command and it listed "nvidia 290.10-1; however, after a reboot, it now shows opencl-nvida and libcl.

Thank you for your response and the link!

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