[elrepo] RE driver update incompatibility issue

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Le 28/01/2013 23:52, Nux! a écrit :
> On 28.01.2013 21:26, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> The pipe-dream, and a 'better than Windows' experience, is a single
>> package set that covers all legacy versions plus the current version
>> and leverages udev to load the right bits at boot time.  I have no
>> clue how difficult that would be to implement, other than it's likely
>> to be pretty hard.
>>
>> As I say, I'm not complaining about the status quo; I'm very grateful
>> for all the work that you do and have done in just getting us the bits
>> packaged, and packaged very well indeed, IMO.
>
> Lamar's idea is quite neat! +1

indeed that's a very cool idea.

one downside though, it means release a new version of the unified 
nvidia package every time any one of the driver versions gets an update. 
So whatever version you actually use, if you stay up to date you'll 
download and install the new package every time.
And that will be a massive download... not a problem if you have a fast 
network, but for some users this may be painful. Maybe also for the 
elrepo infrastructure (don't know how developed the mirror system is).

Not saying it's a show stopper but it might be worth considering.

Another thing: if all kmods are installed, can you make the kernel load 
the correct one?