LWN.net Logo

Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it?

Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it?

Posted Mar 17, 2006 8:41 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it? by fenrus
Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

That's exactly my point.

Three lines of code. Yawn.

Affecting a whole lot of people. Not-so-yawn.

Rebuilding everything in the distribution because of a three-line fix like this one (if that's in fact what's going on -- I'm using Ubuntu -- their release process definitely does NOT work that way) makes ... slightly less than no sense whatsoever.


(Log in to post comments)

Why isn't 5 days enough to fix it?

Posted Mar 17, 2006 15:16 UTC (Fri) by fenrus (guest, #31654) [Link]

three lines of code *IN THE NVIDIA DRIVER*.

which Fedora obviously doesn't ship (for legal and open source reasons)

Copyright © 2012, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds