Re: with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>]

sean darcy wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:01 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>>> rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.1.1-1.fc8
>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>          xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed) 
>>> xorg-x11-drivers-7.2-9.fc8.i386
>> xorg-x11-drivers has been a metapackage with nothing dependent on it for
>> a very, very long time. Feel free to erase it.
>>
>>
> 
> rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-voodoo
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          xorg-x11-drv-voodoo is needed by (installed) 
> xorg-x11-drivers-7.3-2.fc9.i386
> 
> which means that if I did erase it with -nodeps, yum would just drag it 
> back in with any update.
> 
> Perhaps the answer is the xorg-x11-drivers should not depend on the 
> individual drivers, but only have the individual drivers depend on 
> xor-x11-drivers.

why would the individual drivers depend on the xorg-x11-drivers
metapackage, which provides no functionality other than to create
dependencies in the other direction?

You can rpm -e xorg-x11-drivers, then you can easily remove any other
specific xorg drivers you don't need.

$ rpm -q --whatrequires xorg-x11-drivers
no package requires xorg-x11-drivers

What was the point of the metapackage, originally?  To install ALL
drivers at install time and let firstboot sort it out?

-Eric