Hello all, Jorge O. Castro [2015-08-18 14:13 -0400]: > - An additional entry in the graphics driver dialog that says > something similar to "The latest upstream driver from Nvidia), this > selection would never be the default.
We already have this in Ubuntu itself: We have several versions of nvidia-*, with one of them being the "recommended" one by ubuntu-drivers-common. > We would then update the PPA according to Nvidia's upstream release > schedule. Big NACK, for the reason Stéphane pointed out. I see nothing that would stop these packages getting into stable-updates properly, especially if they are new upstream versions that don't change existing systems (unless you opt-in, of course). I. e. I do support the idea of supplying the latest graphics drivers especially to LTSes, but within the Ubuntu archive, not via PPAs. Of course PPAs are fine for pre-release testing, but enabling them as a way to work around Ubuntu policies is a dangerous and slippery slope. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
