should be in multiverse

[shawnlandden]

Binary package hint: nvidia-settings

although the package does not specify it, nvidia-settings works solely with the non-free nvidia propritary driver, nothing in main should depend on anything not in main.

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Hi scientus,

Thanks for reporting this bug, I have taken a look at package "nvidia-settings" - and the source. The licence it is released under is the GPLv2 (or later), this in itself is a free licence and would normally consider an application suitable for inclusion in the main repository. It doesn't link, or the packaging depend on the "nvidia proprietary driver" (I was able to install, and begin to run it on ATI based hardware).

If "nvidia-settings" one day actually -depends- on a package outside of main, then this will become a bug that needs fixing.

You can test what a package depends on using:
$ apt-cache depends nvidia-settings

Thanks for reporting this bug, and please report ones in the future.

[shawnlandden (shawnlandden)]

when you start it it complains that you are not running the proprietary driver, and if you are not it doesn't do anything useful. Appears to me that someone removed the recommends that existed in the debian package solely for this reason, as without the driver it is largely worthless. I am not saying it is a licensing issue that it depends on that driver, but that it is analogous to debian's contrib, because it requires that driver to be useful.