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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:18 +0200, "Andreas Rückert" wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> |
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> -------- Original-Nachricht -------- |
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> Datum: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:14:56 +0200 |
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> Von: Luca Casagrande <luca.casagrande@×××××.com> |
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> An: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o |
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> Betreff: [gentoo-catalyst] Some thoughts about NVIDIA and GPL issue... |
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> --<snip>-- |
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> > I am thinking about a solution: |
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> > What about an init script runned before x-setup, that ask if you wanna use |
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> > those driver? |
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> > If yes, it will emerge nvidia or ati driver; if not it will pass by... |
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> You know, we have a similar problem with the Fritz USB WLan driver. Problem is, that |
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> it's required to establish a network connection. So we have no network without the driver, which makes it |
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> hard to emerge it later... :-) |
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> Maybe add it via a separate CD, or so...? |
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Why? You can provide the *distfiles* on the CD. You don't need a |
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network to build a package. |
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