Op zondag 20 januari 2013 23:50:16 schreef Thomas Backlund: > Robert Wood skrev 20.1.2013 23:16: > > So you're saying that because v295 has been out a while you feel it's > > stable so you're happy to have that in the official repositories? I can > > kind of understand that, although in the case of nvidia you'd think they > > had already done the bug fixing. > > If that ever would be true... > many times when they add support for new hardware, old support gets > either broken or dropped... > > for example going past 304.x to 310.x or higher drops hardware support > for older hw. > > > Anyway, in the case of the latest nvidia version it certainly does have > > new features, because it supports newer cards. In this case, it's not a > > big thing because it's relatively easy for me to install, but I would > > think that for new users who have modern software you'd really want them > > to have access to it. After all M2 is the latest stable release. > > But yes, this is a thing we need to improve... without breaking > anything in the process... > > The best way for now to get newer drivers is to rebuild the srpm in > cauldron and install that.
and soonish, we could have (supported) backports, so that people needing/wanting this can have this one, while the people with older hardware can keep their things working.
