Re: nvidia-driver and no update in /usr/ports/UPDATING

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 00:00:34 +0100
tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote:

> So *WHY* were the consequences of PR 261666 not in /usr/ports/UPDATING?
> nvidia-driver was updated to (560) i think. 5-something.. the instance
> before was moved to nvidia-driver-470 as it's now legacy. That's great
> and all, but *WHY* the *F**K* isn't in *UPDATING??!??!?!?!*

	You know if this was a commercial product for which you were paying
for support and you spoke like that to a support worker you would get hung
up on and blacklisted for verbal abuse. It is no more acceptable in text,
especially since you are talking to users - I very much doubt that anyone
involved will see your rant.

	Now to answer your question - there's nothing in UPDATING because
the port maintainer for that port didn't put anything in there when they
made the change. So if you want to know why you could look up the
maintainer (listed in the Makefile) and ask them *politely* about it -
maybe they had to rush a child to hospital or attend some social event and
forgot to do it. Whatever the reason they deserve politeness and gratitude
for what they have done not abuse for what they haven't.

	Or you could hurl anonymous abuse at the uninvolved with thinly
disguised obscenities in a public forum to no effect whatsoever except to
make yourself look foolish.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>