Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[Peter Gordon]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:18:59 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn  
<d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de> wrote:
> So basically you say that since you cannot attack the vendors directly
> you choose to do so by proxy by...kicking your own users in the balls?
> While I'm not exactly a friend of these vendors myself I consider this
> behaviour not quite ethical.
Is it not also inethical to *not* do this, thereby indirectly promoting
or encouraging the use of proprietary drivers? ;)

> If FC5 hadn't supported the proprietary drivers in the first place then
> I wouldn't see a problem here since the users had a choice of upgrading
> to/installing FC5 with that fact in mind but now many of these users
> will upgrade their system (which they assumed to be reasonably "stable"
> because they thought an FC5 release is *not* like rawhide) only get
> their X11 nuked by that upgrade.
A very similar reasoning keeps X.org 7.1 as masked in Gentoo's Portage tree;
and it is being discussed on their forums[1] for those interested. I believe
that a lot of the points there are applicable to this discussion as well.

[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-477702.html
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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