Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[alan]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Rahul wrote:

> dragoran wrote:
>> Rahul wrote:
>>> dragoran wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=946216&postcount=4
>>>> but this should not stop you from realeasing xorg-7.1
>>>> if someone for (whatever reason) don't wont to use it they should still 
>>>> wait until updated drivers are available.
>>>> but we should atleast inform user that the new X will break their drivers 
>>>> (fedoranews)
>>>> but silently break things _is_ wrong
>>> 
>>> Should we also put out notices every time a kernel updates breaks non-free 
>>> third party kernel modules?
>>> 
>> if we know that it will break a module that many users use than why not?
>
> We dont test out proprietary software against any update produced by Fedora. 
> Why should Xorg or kernel updates be a exception?

We should at least warn people when we know there is going to be a 
problem.

No matter what you feel about the nVIDIA proprietary driver, a great 
number of people use it.  (And some do not have many options.  Some things 
do not work without it and if you have a laptop, getting something else is 
a wee bit expensive.)

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