X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules [LWN.net]

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 15, 2006 14:50 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (guest, #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.