On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:01 -0700, john wendel wrote:
I should just keep quiet, but anyhow ...
Yes, why tempt fate, when you can... ;-)
I just installed the latest evil Nvidia driver, which works great on
my F11 box, and nothing is broken. I just did 'ls -ltr' in all
the /usr directories, and I don't see anything "stomped" on except for
some include files. All the files installed by the Nvidia installer
(except the include files) have "nvidia" and/or a version number in
their name. Nvidia replaces libGL (and friends), but the files are
properly versioned, and the original files are still there.
If they have stopped stomping on original files, then it's news to us.
Because the have for years.
I really don't understand the "problem". Is it
practical or
philosophical?
You could start by reading:
http://rpmfusion.org/RPMFusionSwitcher
Not to mention that one of the great benefits of using Fedora with
packages from the usual repos, is that "yum update" takes care of
everything. Unlike the Windows-style of management, where everything is
separately handled (Windows does its own updates, your drivers need
separately updating, your software individually checks with mummy for
updates once a day, or each time you fire it up).
There used to be an easy to find page that detailed exactly what
blunders Nvidia did to your system with their install, but I can't find
it right now. Considering their prior behaviour, I have little faith in
them.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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