On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:54 AM Marius Schwarz <fedora...@cloud-foo.de>
wrote:

> Am 29.03.20 um 18:24 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> >
> > RPM Fusion used to provide compiled kmod packages for years, and those
> just
> > worked. (Well, for the proprietary ones, they only worked as well as
> > proprietary drivers work to begin with, but that was no fault of the
> kmod
> > packages.) So why and when did that stop?
>
> The precompiled kmod-nvidia packages where hell, because they sometimes
> needed days to get online.
> While people where waiting, the system did not boot into the newest
> kernel as the needed driver was missing.
>
> akmod is the much better solution for this.
>

Yes, some sort of automated solution would only work if the kernel stopped
breaking the builds so often, requiring manual intervention. Lately I've
gotten a new kernel on my Fedora 31 install almost every update. It's just
too much to deal with. RPM Fusion has a small fraction of both the
infrastructure and volunteers as Fedora.

Thanks,
Richard
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