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



On 03/02/2008 03:09 PM, 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?

Not really, because you don't necessarily know what I need. I could be installing onto a removable hard drive, for instance. I could be doing one install and then cloning to a bunch of other machine. And it would suck for virt, too.


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