On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 01:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 10:51 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> What was the point of the metapackage, originally? To install ALL
>> drivers at install time and let firstboot sort it out?
>
> To ensure that (for most cases), all drivers are installed and continue
> to be updated as new drivers are added. That way, if someone changes
> out their video hardware, they don't get hosed by not having the driver
> available.
Would it make sense for Anaconda to detect a laptop and only install the
driver the system needs?
aspartame:~% n=0 ; rpm -q --requires xorg-x11-drivers | grep -v ^rpmlib
| xargs rpm -q --qf="%{size}\n" | while read i ; do n=$(( $n + $i )) ;
done ; echo $n
6315970
If you have a laptop where that six megs matters, you should have your
own comps file anyway.
- ajax