25 Feb
2012
25 Feb
'12
9:18 a.m.
On 02/24/2012 09:15 PM, hermann wrote:
Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 20:22 -1000 schrieb
david:
Yah, that's the big weakness of FLOSS: only doing what some individual
might think is necessary (programmer scratching his or her own itches).
I think FLOSS audio is bitten by that problem a lot.
On 02/24/2012 08:10 PM, hermann wrote:
That's the wrong conclusion. Maybe it strikes you hard, I understand
that, but don't forget that all work in debian is done for free, every
one do what he think is necessary. Am Samstag, den 25.02.2012, 06:19 +0100 schrieb
Ralf Mardorf:
Simply put it this way: Something that doesn't get maintained (probably
because the egos of the developers aren't stroked so much doing
maintenance than developing something new) STILL SHOULDN'T BE REMOVED
WHEN IT'S THE ONLY OPTION THAT WORKS.
Bah. For what reason the nv driver is dropped right
now?
- Ralf
The answer is simpler the you suspect:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612189 Also note please that nor the nv driver or the nouveau
driver are
developed by debian, they are part of Xorg/Xf86, so also your conclusion
over the egos of the debian "workers" is wrong.
Same egotism problem, just different organization.
Again, if you wish to see this package back in debian,
offer your work
for free and just do it. or, try to find someone how do it for you.
Or select a distribution, witch offer this package to you.
A un-maintained package can't be a part of the distribution. It makes no
mater if it is the only working solution (for you), or not.
What about packages that simply keep on working, require no maintenance,
etc? Do they get booted because they WORK without any changes? Like the
rhyme dictionary package did?
--
David
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