livna NVIDIA drivers - packaging problem?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2006, 13:40 -0500 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 08:41 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > You are using the Livna package?  I am compiling directly from the
> > > nvidia install package.
> >
> > Mixing RPM and non-RPM software is usually a bad idea.
> 
> not always.  nvidia's been pretty good about providing downloadable
> and runnable files that install drivers on FC systems with a minimum
> of fuss.

You mean the installer that overwrites files that again are overwritten
during the next Mesa/Xorg-Update? Or that don't work if you change the
graphic card to one from another verndor? 

Such things are quite fun sometimes. Does anybody remember Win 9x? ;-) 

SCNR
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>