Re: Nvidia binary drivers fail to install on Fedora 32

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> Leigh Scott wrote:
> 
> Since when? Why? Where was this discussed?

It will 4 years in July.

https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/nonfree/nvidia-kmod.git/commit/?id=52cadb0401a80d4c95563880f154d45506f18b9e

I believe there may have been a brief discussion between kwizart and me on IRC.
They were dropped due to workload and lack of active maintainers' look at the stats.

https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildsbyuser

The infra and release tasks add additional workload.

> 
> A compiler has no business being on end users' systems. Fedora is not 
> Gentoo. The akmod approach is flawed, independently of Silverblue etc.
> 

Users would still need a compiler to install the nvidia.run file if we stopped providing nvidia or all other kmods.

> RPM Fusion used to provide compiled kmod packages for years, and those just 
> worked. (Well, for the proprietary ones, they only worked as well as 
> proprietary drivers work to begin with, but that was no fault of the kmod 
> packages.) So why and when did that stop?
> 
> And the way Silverblue works, it is just not possible for them to support 
> akmod packages, by design. I consider this a major design flaw in
> rpm-ostree. But RPM Fusion refusing to provide binary kmod packages does not 
> help, either.

I don't have any spare time due infra and release tasks, you can do the kmod rebuild tasks if you want them back?

> 
>         Kevin Kofler
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