Blacklisting Nouveau

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:14:25PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > No 3D hardware support, your software won't work.  It doesn't matter 
> > what you do or how often you install the software or attempt to edit 
> > config files, will it work.  It requires 3D support.  It should or could 
> > be a requirement before YUM installs the application.
> This isn't a good idea as the hardware the image is running on may change.
> Think particularly of live images. 3d packages are supposed to check for


So, Bruno's totally right, but Robin, this wouldn't be terribly hard to
implement as a yum plugin (checking for a gl dependency).



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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences