On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > From the Fedora perspective, there are users who have Fedora who also want > > to use the Nvidia blob, and your proposal is to enable them. It makes sense, > > in the sense that you are working to solve Fedora problems, where you have > > some influence. "Fedora supports Nvidia" doesn't fly though, and regardless > > of the language you use or implementation details like shipping metadata > > instead of binaries, that *is* the perceived message of your proposal. > A small but important clarification here. In the proposal, Fedora > would not ship binaries and would not ship metadata. It would not > ship anything related to a 3rd party repository other than knowing the > web-accessible location of a repository. It is, in effect anyway, the > equivalent of doing a "google: nvidia linux repository" in a software > installer. > I'm not elaborating on the broader story, but I did want to clarify > the technical details. Fedora is not shipping anything in this > proposal. Pedantic but (maybe) important distinction: the idea would be to prepopulate (in some way or another) the software installer application with _specific_ 3rd party repositories (in the mockup, Adobe, Dropbox, Google, Nvidia, and Steam) -- akin more to having the default Fedora bookmarks include the download pages at those companies than to a Google search. Or am I misunderstanding? -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
