Mandag den 25. november 2013 14:19:57 skrev C:
I've seen an announce that the repo will be in place ~27 November, but this will not answer my questions. The problem isn't the repo hosting location is it? Moving it to Packman or somewhere else isn't going to solve the issue with the
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Bruno Friedman wrote: proprietary driver lagging so far behind the release. As you pointed out, we have a single point of failure... a single person who has taken responsibility for maintaining the driver. When that one person is busy.. away... no prebuilt driver.
I like the idea of community maintained - maybe we can keep the driver more up to date? More current? What would this entail though?
There's no monopoly on building the packages. The source rpms are even available, anyone with the skills and desire can build them. The problem actually _is_ the hosting/distribution. Noone - including packman - is too interested in distributing pre-built nvidia rpms and thus flirting with gpl violation. But only very few people have contacts at Nvidia and can get the packages uploaded there. The versionitis is a completely separate issue. Productive users wouldn't want to risk such a driver update constantly. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org