On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 19:19 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > > In the real world, you're asking Fedora to do something to enable > > binary drivers which goes against it's goals. And then you're whining > > about it when we say no. > > Oh yea, to have one developer spend one day to provide a compatibility > route for a large number of Fedora users is just *way* too much to > ask...sheesh... > > I'm not asking for someone to spend a year full time on this, it would > only take about one day's worth of effort as far as I can see. That's so adorably misguided. Let's see. Compat packages for the X server and every driver. That's about sixty new packages, all of which have to go through new package review. Even if they're all perfect, you're looking at a good 30 minutes apiece just to get the things into CVS, then another hour or so until everything manages to bubble out of koji. Except, of course, that they won't be perfect, since they'll file-conflict with the non-compat drivers. So you'll have to add explicit Conflicts to each of now ~120 packages. Okay, more like an hour for each package now, since we're having to test packaging behaviour. Ooh, and now we're picking up an additional set of packages to apply stability fixes to. So, uh. A week and a half of doing _nothing_ _else_, when I'm already clearly overscheduled. A good solid sixty hours of work, plus a continuing time investment of essentially a whole new current distro to support, a level of time investment that I wouldn't sign up for for RHEL for less than seven figures of revenue. All to continue to make some binary driver work. How's no sound? Is no good for you? No's great for me. Let me put this as politely as possible: compatibility X server packages are out of the fucking question. I've refused them in paid supported products for strong technical and support reasons, and I'm not about to start doing them for free just to get my jollies preserving interoperability with someone's binary blob. - ajax
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