On Tuesday 17 August 2010, at 08:23:17, Ionuț Bîru <[email protected]> wrote: > Did catalyst resolved the issues that we had with it some time ago? > If yes catalyst should be repacked properly if you want it in repos, > like nvidia is.
No, catalyst is still away from good support of upstream kernel/xorg-server. For xserver 1.7 support we had to wait for nearly 5 months! Plus we have to wait 2 months for them to put my 1 line patch which serve kernel 2.6.34 support, 1 line! Sure it's now supporting xserver 1.8 and kernels up to 2.6.36-rc1 but it's bad idea to put it to official repo just because of that. Catalyst actually support just few distros, and that distros are generally far from upstream. I was actually crossing all my fingers for xserver 1.9 (which has new abi) in ubuntu 10.10. But it was worth it... <sigh> so we don't need to wait for new xserver support for 5 months, just 2... Anyhow my point is that catalyst atm isn't ready to land in official repo, it's far far away from Arch Way, and i think that catalyst should show at least one year of good support before we could put it to official repo again. -- Greetz Vi0L0 gpg: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x561FEC2AFFC7E56E
