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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:54:50 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nVidia BLOB driver
Message-ID:  <20110419165450.694e0130@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DAD758B.6050500@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <4DAD758B.6050500@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:44:11 +0200
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:


> And the last question is about the place where the nVidia binary
> driver is kept. I tried to look for it intuitively at folder
> x11-driver. Is there a reason why this BLOB is kept outside the
> x11-driver

ports/x11-drivers/ was created when the drivers were split out of the
old monolithic xorg port. nvidia-driver was already in the tree when
that happened. I guess no-one bothered to move it.


> folder?

There are some people on this list that don't like the "F-word", let's
see if one bites.



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