Just wanted to share a recurring problem that I have with OpenSUSE, nouveau and nvidia proprietary drivers.
Every time I want to do a distro upgrade this becomes an issue. I run the proprietary drivers, because well, they’re just
better for my use cases. As such when I go to do a distro upgrade, the latest example, from 42.3 to leap 15 I am presented with
the lovely, Mesa requires libdrm_nouveau…blah blah blah. As I blacklist and lock nouveau from ever intruding into my configuration,
I am now given options to deinstall Mesa, keep obsolete Mesa, Remove the lock from nouveau or Ignore and break Mesa.
None of these are really tolerable. Can there not be a way to say, “I see you are using proprietary drivers…, the following is suggested”
As it is I will have to remove the lock, install nouveau, perform the distro upgrade and then put it all back together.
Just seems like we can do better.