From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48405138334 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AEC2E0BFD; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 043B3E0AFE for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wim.jer (jer.xs4all.nl [212.238.182.54]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jer) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D99B8335C16; Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:20:52 +0100 From: Jeroen Roovers To: Matt Turner Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-378* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-381* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-384* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-387* =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396* Message-ID: <20181216232052.2a9a995f@wim.jer> In-Reply-To: References: <20181214150422.0ee5963c@wim.jer> <20181216204000.18747088@wim.jer> Organization: Gentoo Foundation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.2 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e2ec54c1-a874-4305-858e-a62ccff89ce7 X-Archives-Hash: 80a7ecf08362cc690236e76580cccbe7 On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:45:11 -0500 Matt Turner wrote: > I guess my question to you is whether you think it's okay to mask -304 > for removal or whether there are enough users that we should keep it > under package.mask? "The Linux 304.* legacy driver series is the last to support the NV4x and G7x GPUs and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 304.* legacy releases through the end of 2017." [1] That should be fine, then: 304 no longer receives security support so it can go away along with xorg-server-1.19. Kind regards, jer [1] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142