On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Eduardo Romero <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:01 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> Hmm. My thinkpad has an ATI card in it, and I stopped using the >> catalyst drivers a LONG time ago (a year? I know Travis was still >> packaging them when I stopped). >> >> So, I guess my actual usage follows this pattern, so maybe it's the >> right way to go. >> >> Still, I wonder if this is going to anger a lot of people. Probably, >> but if they're using catalyst right now they're probably angry at it >> already :) >> >> I'm all for removing shitty packages, but I fear that moving it to >> community would be simply moving the shit around instead of dealing >> with it. Perhaps, at this juncture, it would make more sense in the >> AUR (we'd have to kindly ask the TUs not to package it though). > > My reason for it to go to community is so a TU can dedicate attention to > it, Andreas does not want to waste time on fixing this drivers as they > are of no particular interest to him. Maybe a TU in community can apply > patches to make the x86_64 9.2 release to work. But well, I'm fine with > moving them to AUR, there are some distributions that do not provide > catalyst at all in any form, comes to mind paldo GNU/Linux.
Well, I guess what I was saying is: *can* we even fix it? I mean, if they release a broken driver, we can't exactly patch some closed source blob
