with F9, will we still need ALL X drivers?
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Sun Mar 2 16:51:31 UTC 2008
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
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