As I do every now & then, I decided to update my kernel and nvidia drivers. I went from kernel 3.7.3 w/nvidia driver 310.19, to kernel 3.7.5 w/nvidia driver 310.32… When I ran the nvidia installer, I was spammed with literally hundreds of dialogs, such as:
WARNING: Unable to remove installed file ‘/usr/src/nvidia-310.19/nv-kernel.o’ (No such file or directory).
and
WARNING: Unable to remove installed file ‘/usr/src/nvidia-310.19/nv.c’ (No such file or directory).
and
WARNING: Unable to remove installed file ‘/usr/src/nvidia-310.19/nv-acpi.c’ (No such file or directory).
and
WARNING: Unable to remove installed file ‘/usr/src/nvidia-310.19/nv-chrdev.c’ (No such file or directory).
and
WARNING: Unable to remove installed file ‘/usr/src/nvidia-310.19/nv-cray.c’ (No such file or directory).
and countless more. Every single one of these requires the user to hit OK. Rather than spamming the user like there’s no tomorrow, and forcing countless hits of OK, how about put all this junk into a log file somewhere and tell the user there were warning and he/she can refer to the logfile if there’s any interest?
Did/does the installer work? Yes… But, that doesn’t mean it has to or should be unnecessarily annoying, especially when it’s 100% avoidable.
Thanks.