Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:55:22AM -0000, B.Weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Last time I tried to push this issue was not really successful. :-(
> > Read the results in Bug #206956.
> 
> So it seems that nvidia are quite happy to host them so presumably either:
> 
> - Novell only want their enterprise customers to be able to use them.

Well, it's correct that SLE has a higher priority for Novell than
openSUSE. BTW, absolutely the same applies to NVIDIA/ATI.

> - Novell have not bothered to ask nvidia to host additional packages.

Novell did. It seems NVIDIA changed its mind meanwhile.

> I suspect it's unlikely packman would want to host these as they're dodgy
> both legally and morally. Only nvidia should have to take the risk.
> (Although no-one seems to have sued Debian and canonical yet)

Hmm. Sure that Debian/Ubuntu provides prebuilt NVIDIA packages?

Stefan

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