Fedora 7 will ship Nouveau?

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:24, Max Spevack wrote:
> This seems reasonable to me.  Everyone seems to agree that it's not ready
> to be the default, but that doesn't preclude us from having in the Fedora
> package set, and available for install.
>
> To me the question is between:
>
> 1) putting it on the Fedora Desktop ISO in a non-default capacity
>
> 2) just having it in the Fedora repository (what used to be Extras, what
> now is "all the packages that aren't included on the 'official' ISOs") and
> let people install it via pup/yum
>
> I don't necessarily have a strong opinion one way or the other.
>
> But I can't really think of any reason why it shouldn't be a part of
> Fedora -- it's Free in all the senses that Fedora cares about, and folks
> like ajax and jrb in our own community are behind it.

IIRC we can just make it fall out of the xorg-x11-drivers-nv package as just 
another file.  'nv' would be used by default, but one could change 'nv' 
to 'nouveau' to test it out.  No installing extra packages.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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