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

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 24 15:32:11 UTC 2006


> The goal here is not to prevent Nvidia-supplied rpms to run on Linux.
> The goal is to prevent shell-based installers from modifying files 
> that are "controlled" by the rpm database.
> Nvidia rpms would not create a problem on Fedora, since any conflicts 
> with other rpms would be exposed by the package manager.
Well, maybe this is wishful thinking, since rpm does have scripting 
capabilities, so it can do whatever it wants to...




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