If that is in fact the case then perhaps the nvidia binary driver should not be installed by default. However, I was under the impression that it had to be installed explicitly.
In any case, I am not advocating that the proprietary driver should be part of the default ubuntu-desktop installation. My criticism is that when a user installs the nvidia-glx package, it is left in a somewhat unconfigured state unlike the many other packages in the repositories that are cleanly installed and removed.
If that is in fact the case then perhaps the nvidia binary driver should not be installed by default. However, I was under the impression that it had to be installed explicitly.
In any case, I am not advocating that the proprietary driver should be part of the default ubuntu-desktop installation. My criticism is that when a user installs the nvidia-glx package, it is left in a somewhat unconfigured state unlike the many other packages in the repositories that are cleanly installed and removed.