On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:01 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Hmm. My thinkpad has an ATI card in it, and I stopped using the catalyst drivers a LONG time ago (a year? I know Travis was still packaging them when I stopped).
So, I guess my actual usage follows this pattern, so maybe it's the right way to go.
Still, I wonder if this is going to anger a lot of people. Probably, but if they're using catalyst right now they're probably angry at it already :)
I'm all for removing shitty packages, but I fear that moving it to community would be simply moving the shit around instead of dealing with it. Perhaps, at this juncture, it would make more sense in the AUR (we'd have to kindly ask the TUs not to package it though).
My reason for it to go to community is so a TU can dedicate attention to it, Andreas does not want to waste time on fixing this drivers as they are of no particular interest to him. Maybe a TU in community can apply patches to make the x86_64 9.2 release to work. But well, I'm fine with moving them to AUR, there are some distributions that do not provide catalyst at all in any form, comes to mind paldo GNU/Linux.