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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 14:50 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by warmcat1
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

If you're not using RPMs like those from Livnia, your system will break _every_time_ you upgrade your kernel, anyway. I'm not saying that one _shouldn't_ use non-packaged drivers, but if you do, you _will_ have to manually check and work around dependencies.


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