[aur-general] Putting bumblebee and friends into [community]
Hi, I'd like to gather some opinions on this. I was thinking about putting bumblebee, primus and bbswitch into [community] as it doesn't look as though nvidia is going to fix this properly in their driver any time soon. I know about the GPL symbol drama and the supposed fix that is in mainline now but how long until nvidia releases a working driver that makes use of all that? Until then, I think bumblebee is an ok fix. For laptops with optimus, bumblebee is pretty much a necessity if you want any kind of battery life and acceptable sound levels. I have a laptop with optimus and use bumblebee all the time and I think it would make sense to have it in [community]. The sad fact is that bumblebee is currently the only working solution for optimus. Normally I wouldn't ask the mailing list for something mundane as moving packages but as bbswitch is a kernel module and as bumblebee is not very highly regarded as a good solution even by its developers, I thought it'd make sense to ask here first before people got angry.
Hi, I haven't followed the controversy surrounding bumblebee, but if it's a package that's needed to make your system work as it should, I think it weighs towards moving it up from AUR. +1 -- Sincerely, Alexander Rødseth xyproto / TU
Em 02/03/2013 09:53, Sven-Hendrik Haase escreveu:
Hi,
I'd like to gather some opinions on this. I was thinking about putting bumblebee, primus and bbswitch into [community] as it doesn't look as though nvidia is going to fix this properly in their driver any time soon. I know about the GPL symbol drama and the supposed fix that is in mainline now but how long until nvidia releases a working driver that makes use of all that?
Until then, I think bumblebee is an ok fix. For laptops with optimus, bumblebee is pretty much a necessity if you want any kind of battery life and acceptable sound levels. I have a laptop with optimus and use bumblebee all the time and I think it would make sense to have it in [community]. The sad fact is that bumblebee is currently the only working solution for optimus.
Normally I wouldn't ask the mailing list for something mundane as moving packages but as bbswitch is a kernel module and as bumblebee is not very highly regarded as a good solution even by its developers, I thought it'd make sense to ask here first before people got angry.
I need this package and it gives me headache on every kernel update. I'd be awesome if you move it to [community]. Thanks for the initiative! Rafael Ferreira
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Hi,
I'd like to gather some opinions on this. I was thinking about putting bumblebee, primus and bbswitch into [community] as it doesn't look as though nvidia is going to fix this properly in their driver any time soon. I know about the GPL symbol drama and the supposed fix that is in mainline now but how long until nvidia releases a working driver that makes use of all that?
Until then, I think bumblebee is an ok fix. For laptops with optimus, bumblebee is pretty much a necessity if you want any kind of battery life and acceptable sound levels. I have a laptop with optimus and use bumblebee all the time and I think it would make sense to have it in [community]. The sad fact is that bumblebee is currently the only working solution for optimus.
I think you should move too many of the dependencies from aur to multilib too..
Normally I wouldn't ask the mailing list for something mundane as moving packages but as bbswitch is a kernel module and as bumblebee is not very highly regarded as a good solution even by its developers, I thought it'd make sense to ask here first before people got angry.
+1 I suggested you to move this to community, i've prepared some of the packages that are on aur, i did plans to move this, but then on the way i am not using much bumblebee now .. so count with my support / help co-maintaining this. - -- Be a local everywhere! Angel Velasquez CTO/Co-Founder @ citibuddies Arch Linux Developer @citibuddies @angvp #citibuddies http://www.citibuddies.com http://www.angvp.com.ar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRMvyWAAoJEEKh2xXsEzut9okIALAlhm1QhkYKzzsvbSjZejvf wJK50ODj5OgfdVN3xa6D7F8q9yruoZJ53shmohpvvmA0Rx0rlxTdRGyblHRGOHke iX7Fd/v8naeSxaxBzWW4fBQgw2WLAs1gea1xc6XvnITxo7eGYep0ccvIu+TA+fZf yCQ5vVO/6D51DQxhtRLJjLrG8PAslNQ6aEijetsOnnAwe8FtVfpizcV7eExPJ8fh OyAjxfPopzsP/UYu7hwFPQfupUufz74pnBqdwVc1kX4hngWURa7tAe7IDOyYxHI8 ERui2JYhoPN0H03xP81ZI+1VgbCrZAIPF7bm8qNooP4ziO1UCUSPm9GCKPrqmpg= =ZLlo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
participants (4)
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Alexander Rødseth
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Angel Velásquez
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josephgbr＠archlinux.info
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Sven-Hendrik Haase