On 3/15/07, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > > the latest version of their drivers periodically. > > > > I have a question: does this represent a change in policy that Recipes > > can now be used to download and install binary-only apps? Despite the > > "shim" compilation step, Nvidia seems like essentially a binary > > download to me... > > > > I think it's a fine solution when the source is not available and the > > binaries may not be redistributed in a repackaged form, but I thought > > it had been shot down in the past, and I wanted to see if a Recipe for > > e.g. Adobe Reader was now possible as long as any relevant license > > screens are displayed. > > With (a) support for displaying license agreements added to Compile > and (b) a separate recipes store for binary-only/non-free stuff (don't > know how well Compile currently handles multiple remote stores, btw), > I think we could lower the restriction on the usage of recipes. > Opinions?
That's fine. Compile already accepts mirrors, so I would expect that GetRecipe iterates on $getRecipeStores -- we'll just need to include the proprietary repository there then. I'm not sure about MANIFEST.bz2, though. As far as I know all processing is done based on that file, right? -- Lucas powered by /dev/dsp _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
