On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:33 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > > Backporting packages is not intrinsically very difficult, though it is > > somewhat time-consuming, so it's something for which a far greater > > candidate pool exists than X driver development. Thus, the suggestion > > that someone else do it. For instance, you. It seems you've already > > successfully built the latest versions of things locally; if you can do > > that, you can put them in a package and put the package in a repository, > > it's not a very hard process and it's all documented on the Wiki. > > > I was thinking of doing that, I have done this sort of thing before, until > the drivers/drm/mesa needed changes in the XServer which is dependent on a > lot of things. I would then be fighting a battle with the main updates > repositories for evermore, well until F12 which will then bring in its own > set of problems.... well, yes, and that's the exact reason it would be finicky and time-consuming and not a good way for our X developers to spend their time :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
