Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r2912 - in branches/7.1/xserver/xorg-server/debian: . patches
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 13:51 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
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> This was at the request of the release team. Since Nvidia hadn't released a
> driver for 7.1, and it wasn't clear that they would any time soon, the RM's
> wanted to allow nvidia-glx users to have an easy way to have acceleration.
> This was the compromise to allow us to ship 7.1.
You're saying we would have stayed with an older and clearly inferior
upstream version of free software if we hadn't found a way to deal with
a flaw in proprietary software?
> Now that they've released an updated driver this could potentially be
> removed, but I still think it's a useful feature
Again, I disagree. I suspect this will lead to spurious bug reports down
the road.
> (which is why I pushed it upstream too).
Indeed, without any prior discussion.
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