Yet again: Current package status updated (package maintainers please read!)

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 20.10.2008 02:03, Stewart Adam wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | nvidia-96xx-kmod | Not found in nonfree-devel
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | nvidia-96xx-kmod | Not found in nonfree-F-9
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | nvidia-legacy-kmod | Not found in 
>>> nonfree-devel
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | nvidia-legacy-kmod | Not found in nonfree-F-9
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx | Not found in 
>>> nonfree-devel
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx | Not found in 
>>> nonfree-F-9
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy | Not found in 
>>> nonfree-devel
>>> s.adam_[AT]_diffingo.com | xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy | Not found in 
>>> nonfree-F-9
>> Software provided by upstream does not work on F9 and rawhide
>> I'm going to import these anyways soon  so that users who have downgraded
>> Xorg can still have access to the drivers.
> 
> I strongly vote for not doing this -- Users that did such crazy things 
> can just as easy grab the drivers from the F-8 branch. And if nvidia 
> doesn't fix the drivers until F8 is EOL then a private repo is the way 
> better place for crazy things like this.
> 
> Having those drivers somewhere in the repo just gives them the 
> impression that it might work -- which it does not.
> 

+1, +100 even.

Regards,

Hans