El 12/06/18 a las 15:36, Luke Shumaker escribió: > Hi all, > > Because Mesa was a point of contention last year, I'm publicly > discussing this here. > > I've unblacklisted extra/mesa, and am going to remove libre/mesa. The > differences are: > > - libre/mesa said "free" instead of "open-source" in pkgdesc > - libre/mesa removed most everything from /etc/drirc > > The reason libre/mesa existed (or continued to exist after 2017-03) is > because: /etc/drirc configures workarounds for specific buggy > applications, and the stock file from upstream is a growing database > of them. Most of these end up being proprietary applications, since > free applications get patched, rather than needing workarounds in the > graphics driver. > > Emulatorman had considered these references to non-free programs to be > significant enough to warrant repackaging it. > > I disagree, I don't believe the collection of workarounds in > /etc/drirc to be a freedom problem. It isn't *trying* to load them > (like Linux might with non-free blobs). The user won't be confused in > to thinking something is wrong if the non-free thing isn't installed. > +1
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