[OT] nouveau packages for Fedora

[Adam Jackson]

Dawid Gajownik wrote:
> Hi!
>     Right now Rawhide is really boring (devel freeze). If you have a bit 
> more time, nVidia card and would like to test nouveau¹ driver you can 
> check this page → http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FedoraPackages
> 
> Compared to standard nv driver nouveau supports EXA acceleration and is 
> a bit deobfuscated.

I'm considering packaging what few external drivers there are (nouveau, 
the N via forks, etc) in extras.  I'm already doing the core Xorg video 
drivers so it's not much additional load.

The major problem I'd have with putting them in core is having to decide 
among which driver to use by default, and I don't think there's any good 
way to express that within rpm or yum.  Extras gives you some level of 
opt-in, but that feels like an abuse if we eventually want the 
core/extras distinction to go away; then again, ideally there'd be no 
forked drivers either.

It's a hard problem, I'm certainly open to ideas, but I definitely want 
to see them get into the distro.

- ajax