I haven’t in the past, it makes it much easier to test if the packages have the same name. That way all one need do is disable the repo and dup and everything automagically returns to stock.
But if it were for everyone, I was inclined to call it something like nvidia-driver-G06-unsupported , so that it was very clear to potential users that what they were doing was not normal.
One of the very valuable lessons we can all learn from observing Stefan’s hard work, is that having the pre-release drivers available will likely result in problems for the users, which fall back upon the maintainer, and end up creating more problems than they solve. I thought that maybe, giving it an ominous-sounding name might help with that.
I did not. In the very near future, it would be the only one I’d package, and in the past, I have packaged the open driver, but there’s little point to try it now, since the GSP firmware based drivers all stutter. I feel it’s a poor use of a maintainer’s time to package that (or a user to test it) until at least that one bug is reported as being fixed.
Frankly, that’s kinda how I feel in general about the 565 drivers available at present, closed or open. It’s already known that many of the big issues from 560 persist, so it’s kinda…what am I testing these drivers for? The bugs are already reported.
For my use, I haven’t even bothered to install either of them yet, let alone package one. I know I’m only going to have to roll back to Stefan’s drivers, anyway. I’m better off to just keep using the official drivers and be patient. I’d say that’s also true for everyone who isn’t planning on spending the next few days staring at gpuvis… and all of those people will be thinking the same as me: why bother, nvidia already know.
That being said, if Stefan wishes that he had more help, and wants this driver packaged, he’s got it, and I will.
Just to set expectations: It’s going to take me a little while to be ready: I need my PC functional for the next 24 hours so I can’t do it immediately, and I have suffered some kind of regression with the plasma 6.2 upgrade which would prevent me from reliably testing the drivers before releasing them to everyone else, so I need to reinstall my entire system, in order to avoid taking risks with other people’s gear. People should expect that I won’t have them done before the end of the week at best.
Sorry for offering, and then saying I’d be late. I keep trying to make my messages shorter, and trimming out important details like that, in the name of brevity. Honestly - I’m just not ready, because I’m not doing it, because I think it’s a bad idea. People would be better off to just take what Stefan has done and be patient 
But I’ll get on it ASAP, regardless.
Perhaps I am just not that memorable 
hehe
It’s just legal permission, that’s the blocking issue.
