Comment # 26 on bug 1173682 from Martin Wilck

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #23)
> (In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #19)
> > I can't answer that, because I have zero knowledge about how that repo is
> > maintained.
> Why do you even ask?

I didn't ask. But indeed I thought you were referring to something else than
Stefan's repo. I apologize, I don't have NVidia hardware and thus no experience
in this area.

> It's maintained by Stefan Dirsch AFAIK.
> You should know that, no?

I'm aware of Stefan's repo. But that doesn't mean that I know how the packages
are structured and built. I believe you read bug 1173158. Then you are probably
aware that a solution will hardly be created in that repo, for legal reasons
alone. To build the packages on the end user's system is key for the design,
but
it doesn't go well with module signing. At best, you'd have to tell users how
to set up their own key, load it into the BIOS, and provide and unlock the
secret key every time the modules are rebuilt.

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #25)
> I would think that this should be worth a reconsideration.

Adding Lubos. I believe it's too late to change this now, and I don't think I
have to re-state that I'm against it. But of course we should discuss it.