2014/1/22 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Sure, but the message you give is: hey, there are these listed FOSS solutions for what you're searching for, but I suggest you the 3d party software, just click here! Sorry but I really don't want to see something like this on Fedora. Do we want to throw away what for 10 years has been a basic feature of our OS? > 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. As the proposal isn't to ship anything, personally I'd go further, let's neither suggest anything which is not FOSS. > josh Just my small feedback in this discussion. -- Robert Mayr (robyduck) _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
