nvidia drivers

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:44 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 29.10.2008 15:22, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info 

> Or, in more detil: In fact it's a the usual foo-kmod.src.rpm that gets 
> compiled by the akmod scripts when needed. That way we have to only 
> maintain one rpm package, as precompiled drivers is something a lot a 
> lot of people want -- especially those with netbooks, where disk space 
> and horse power to build modules is rare.
FWIW: 

IMO, the "horse power" of netbooks only is a minor issue. At least on my
Atom N270 based netbook, the additional time building rt* kmods
requires, is within "tolerable bounds".

However, I would not want to exclude the disk space requirements of
akmods likely to be an issue on HD-less netbooks (mine has one), because
"a vanilla Fedora desktop installs" already are pretty "generous"[1]
diskspace-wise.

That said, though I consider your concerns to be justified, I would not
expect this to become an actual problem. The "normative powers of
reality" will cause this sort of theses issues out automatically :)

Ralf


[1] E.g. one detail: Current rpmfusion akmod packages depend upon
rpmdevtools. rpmdevtools pulls in gcc-c++/libstdc++-devel, which alone
add ~24MB. Getting rid of the gcc-c++ dep in rpmdevtools rsp. getting
rid of rpmdevtools in akmods would make akmods noticeable lighter.