On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:33 +1100, David Timms wrote:
I attempted to remove some of the xorg-x11-drv-mga /s3 etc since I
have
only an ATI card, but found that the particular drivers "is needed by
(installed) xorg-x11-drivers".
Can the .spec be modified so that -drivers requires one-or-more -drv?
Also, the -drv-* would then need be a provider of -drv. This means an
update would only need to dl/install one of the 50 or so drivers.
I guess by default it would make sense to install a few base drv that
can be used as a fallback when no specific driver exists. The installer
would need to "know" which drv to install above the fallbacks, perhaps
such code needs to be invented first ?
that is a LOT of work, for almost no gain (X drivers are really tiny).
In addition it makes moving disks between machines harder etc etc... so
I hope the fedora core developers spend their time on more important
issues than this ;)
(it can easily be several manweeks of work.. and there's much bigger
fish to fry on the X front, like automatic configuration etc etc)