revert b59757e468227127b91fff17b523da4deec8b04d

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Sun Jul 20 17:27:27 PDT 2008


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:43:15PM -0700, Aaron Plattner wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:56:06AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
>>> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key b2808094
>
>>> imposing an additional support burden on X.Org.  Why would we ever
>>> recommend -- and use by default -- something which we cannot support?
>>> We can barely even support nv as it is.  Having NVIDIA's business
>>> decision to write a closed-source driver imposed on a volunteer group of
>>> open source developers is rather distasteful.
>>
>> Driver autoconfiguration doesn't impose anything on anybody.
>
> Good, so we don't need this change then.

I see a lot of noise (from the usual people), but no content regarding
how much work the change would require from you.  Can you provide some
content?

(so potential contributors will know when not to impose on you, of 
course ;-).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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