On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Robert Mayr <robyduck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? As I said, I wasn't elaborating on the wider picture. I'm just correcting misconceptions of the proposal as I see them. josh _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
