Re: FOSS and SliTaz

Do we need a get-nvidia package and remove nvidia ?

Nvidia (or other driver packages) needs linux-source package as a dependency. It was a tough decision at that time but that's the reason we started providing nvidia directly. Opera/Flash, on the other hand, have no dependency and get-* scripts are probably the best way. But again the problem is that URL and web-page of the host site keeps changing. Would have been better if we can point to a permanent "hosting" site, may be that from fedora/debian/ arch.

Rohit

> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:07:22 +0300
> Alexander Medvedev <devl547@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> It's too complicated. If we can use simpler way, we must do it.. I'm
>> going to write a letter to Opera and clear some things out.
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> I hope we're not as bad as Debian. They take this kind of paranoia to a
> new level of extreme. Just because something is free yet closed source
> doesn't give me reason enough to exclude it. The only real reason I see
> to exclude something is if we have to pay royalties on it and in most
> cases that just means we need to not ship it with the distro. This does
> not apply to separately downloadedable packages as can be noted with
> Distros like Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS...
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