On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 02:11 +0300, Plamen Stoev wrote: > Hello! > > The description of the packages envyng-core, envyng-gtk and envyng-qt > says: > "install the ATI or the NVIDIA driver > EnvyNG is an application written in Python which will download the > latest ATI or NVIDIA driver or the Legacy driver (for older cards) > (according to the model of your card) from ATI or Nvidia's website > and set it up for you handling dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, > etc.) which are required in order to build and use the driver." > > So, it's only purpose in life is the installation of the non-free > drivers from AMD/ATI and NVIDIA. The issue is somewhat similar to the > issue with ndiswrapper, as EnvyNG is free software itself. Do you think > that this package should be removed? > > Plamen >
This isn't similar to ndiswrapper at all. ndiswrapper just allows drivers written for NT to function with Linux. It doesn't recommend/download/install non-free software. This is more like the wrapper script for the Adobe Flash plugin, which downloaded and installed the binary plugin from adobe.
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