Comment 32 for bug 210112

I've been thinking about this yesterday when I was under the shower. My conclusion is, that it's very late in the cycle for a new package, which worries me quite a bit. However it would imho still be very nice to have. Now, if someone with upload rights would promise commitment to EnvyNG (i.e. promise to personally look out for bugs, work with Alberto to get SRUs done, if necessary), then I'm happy to get it in at this late moment. Oh, and I guess bribing archive-admins to process this in source-new would also fall under this.

Side story, why I want it in:
Well, I'm a more or less happy user of the nvidia blob. A little bit more than a year ago, my old nvidia card broke so I bought an 8500. Unfortunately it first wasn't supported by nvidia themselves (the nv driver worked, but it was really slow, making e.g. font rendering when scrolling in a terminal a pain). Once nvidia finally updated the driver, it took a very long while to get it in via l-r-m. And this was only the development distribution, not a released one. Imho nvidia will sooner or later break their own compatibility again with newer cards, and I think that envyng could be a very good solution in that regard to at least provide one way for people with newer cards to make them work with hardy in a straightforward way w.o. breaking their system (i.e. by running the nvidia installer).