Comment # 39 on bug 1208939 from Stefan Dirsch

(In reply to Episteme PROMENEUR from comment #36)
> Because SMI is not a monitoring tool.
> 
> A monitoring tool display permanently, in an easy way on my desktop, various
> values as Gkrellm does.
> 
> Gkrellm "nvidia" plugin runs well. But it is a workaround. It works only
> with Gkrellm.

Feel free to improve the situation. I currently don't see how changing the
packaging would help here. Minimal installation should not have any deps to X
libs or even Xserver. Period.