On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:18:56PM -0500, Tim Burke wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On 01/14/2010 04:05 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > >> I'm less willing to believe that the mere hosting of code built > >> on other platforms is unmanageable, or intrinsically contrary to the > >> goals of the project. > >> > > > > Okay, I may have misread this. If all that is being asked of Fedora is > > to provide hosting space for these drivers, I suppose that is fine. > > > > To be clear (from my perspective): > > > > * Including pre-built virtio-win driver in a Fedora package [ NOT OK ] > > * Hosting pre-built virtio-win driver in a Fedora Hosted project (along > > with source) [ OK ] > > > > > The implications are that the "user experience" implications are that > the user will have to manually read all the instructions where it says > "go over to this other place to pick up the rest of the needed parts". > > Meaning that there is a way to provide all the pieces in Fedora, just > that its not as convenient. Actually, if the virt-manager has a way of detecting that it needs virtio-win, it should be possible to do something fairly user-visible, downloading the driver ISO and making sure it's known about thereafter. I'm not sure how easy that is from the CLI-exclusive user's perspective, maybe it's not much difference. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
