Fedora 7 will ship Nouveau?

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 03:52:39 UTC 2007


Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:47, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>> "JK" == Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
>> JK> IIRC we can just make it fall out of the xorg-x11-drivers-nv
>> JK> package as just another file.
>>
>> Yes, you could, but then if it's going to see frequent revisions (and
>> I believe we all hope it will) then the poor nv users will be getting
>> zero-content updates all the time.
> right now  the way x is packaged xorg-x11-drivers would need to require it so 
> all users will get frequent updates  with no content for them. same as people 
> who dont have other cards that have been seeing frequent updates.  it makes 
> zero difference if its in xorg-x11-drv-nv or xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
> 

It makes sense as a separate package xorg-x11-drv-nouveau that the user 
may choose to install from the repo and enable manually.

Is this good ajax?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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