Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-15 Thread Hisham Muhammad
On 3/15/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > > > the latest version of their drivers periodica

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-15 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
On 3/15/07, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > > the latest version of their drivers periodically. > > > > I have a question: does this represent a change in pol

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-15 Thread Hisham Muhammad
On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > the latest version of their drivers periodically. > > I have a question: does this represent a change in policy that Recipes > can now be used to download and install binary

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-15 Thread MJ Ray
"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. I just think we need to find a way to tag these recipes so that > they don't get mixed with the normal ones. Maybe appending > 'proprietary'/'non-free' to the program's version? Can they be held in a different store, please? It would be disa

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-14 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > the latest version of their drivers periodically. > > I have a question: does this represent a change in policy that Recipes > can now be used to download and install binary

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-14 Thread Andy Feldman
Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to the latest version of their drivers periodically. I have a question: does this represent a change in policy that Recipes can now be used to download and install binary-only apps? Despite the "shim" compilation step, Nvidia seems

[gobolinux-devel] Nvidia recipe

2007-03-14 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
Hello there, I finally took a time to convert our NvidiaInstaller script to a recipe. The recipe looks pretty much like the script, with a little workaround to uncompress the .run file and call the installer. The idea is to always show the licence agreement screen so that the user becomes aware of