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

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

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?

No.  Different install paths like this are just recipes for lots of pain
and unexpected bugs

Jeremy