On 6/23/07, Troels Liebe Bentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm going on vacation next week so I won't have a chance to look at
> changing the PKGBUILD before after(2. July). But if you have some old
> discussing about this topic I need to look at, just send an URL and I
> have a read.
>
> But how does the people currently maintaining the driver packages feel
> about adopting a dkms version of it? I will be happy to port the old
> one. I can also be the maintainer of the ones I have hardware for if
> non of the current developers feel like it.
>

dkms is:
a) automagical
b) build on install
c) not as simple

all of the above approaches we discussed and rejected. The discussions
were iirc on the developer ml, so they're not available. I think the
still preferred, and simpler method is to implement multiple packages
in one PKGBUILD, which also has other benefits. We held that off for
pacman3... so I suppose it's time to revisit. I might take a look at
implementing this after I get Arch back on my laptop.

I also mentioned DKMS last time we visited this topic, and AndyRTR who
has dealt with it under mandriva (i think) and said it wasnt suitable.

James
-- 
iphitus // Arch Developer // iphitus.loudas.com

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