[MIR] bumblebee

[Brian Murray]

nvidia-340 contains the following recommendations:

ackage: nvidia-340
Priority: optional
Section: restricted/misc
Installed-Size: 264408
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340
Version: 340.96-0ubuntu2
Replaces: nvidia-persistenced, xorg-driver-binary
Provides: nvidia-driver-binary, nvidia-persistenced, xorg-driver-binary, xorg-driver-video
Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0), make, sed (>> 3.0), dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, patch, acpid, lib32gcc1, libc6-i386, passwd, adduser, xserver-xorg-legacy, libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgl1, libx11-6, libxext6, xorg-video-abi-11 | xorg-video-abi-12 | xorg-video-abi-13 | xorg-video-abi-14 | xorg-video-abi-15 | xorg-video-abi-18 | xorg-video-abi-19 | xorg-video-abi-20, xserver-xorg-core
Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 331.20), nvidia-prime (>= 0.5) | bumblebee, libcuda1-340, nvidia-opencl-icd-340

bumblebee is currently in universe.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Alberto, is this intended to be brought in by default? Or should it be a Suggests?

Will need a security review if we want it.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

That is an alternate dependency i.e. nvidia-prime (>= 0.5) | bumblebee, and it's only meant to allow users to choose between nvidia-prime and bumblebee. We do not need or support bumblebee.

Note: nvidia-prime and bumblebee are mutually exclusive ways to deal with hybrid graphics.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Looks like the reason this is being pulled in is because nvidia-340 is built on amd64, i386, and armhf, but nvidia-prime only exists on amd64 and i386.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Given that bbswitch depends on ACPI, and hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics seem pretty unlikely to exist on armhf, I'm going to drop the dep there and see if this clears up.