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

[David Timms <dtimms iinet net au>]

sean darcy wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:01 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
...
> > 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

I think you missed Ignacio's point:
yum erase xorg-x11-drivers
then any you are sure you don't want.

eg I have for a more than two years similar to:
$ yum list installed xorg*-d*
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Installed Packages
xorg-x11-drv-evdev.i386     1.1.2-5.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard.i386  1.2.2-2.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.i386     1.2.3-1.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.i386   2.1.6-1.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-drv-nv.i386        2.1.6-1.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-drv-vesa.i386      1.3.0-10.fc8           installed
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.i386   12.4.3-1.fc8           installed
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.i386    10.15.2-1.fc8          installed
xorg-x11-drv-void.i386      1.1.1-6.fc8            installed
xorg-x11-proto-devel.noarch 7.3-3.fc8              installed

The development argument used to support installing all drivers is that 
at a change of video card or move a hard disk to another machine, X 
should be able to find and load the correct drivers. Making them all 
available by default eases support/fedora-list/buzilla mail, and is only 
a small storage burden in any case.

My opinion is that it would be nice to have the hardware detection go 
"oh my god - you stuck in a new video card - im downloading the driver 
now - installing it and you'll be ready to rock in no time".

DaveT.