Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

[dragoran]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:

> Davide Bolcioni wrote:
>
>>
>> Could SELinux be used to prevent this and, more generally, disallow
>> replacement of rpm-controlled files even by the root user ?
>>
>
> That would be incredibly annoying and is not where we want to go... It 
> would complicate updates and installs and configuration and everything 
> that is normal administration.
>
> People should just learn by their "mistakes" and replace whatever rpm 
> their operations may have corrupted.
>
> I realize that some people need these rpms and thats why mharris 
> kindly suggests that these people use the third party repos.
>
> Problem solved :o)
>
> /Thomas
>
>
won't help ...
people will ask on the nvidia forums an get a reply "do setenforce 0 
before installing the driver and setenforce 1 after it finished"