RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

Matthew E. Lauterbach mlauterbach at mail.wtamu.edu
Sat Aug 27 19:32:44 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 19:11 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:48:55 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > One of the benefits of the modularized X.Org X11R7, is that it makes it
> > much easier for us to provide individual driver updates without having to
> > release the entire 150Mb monolithic X release.
> 
> Why not merge in the SUSE support for patch RPMs into the Fedora rpm? That
> would solve the same problem.
> 
For Fedora sure...but what about for Debian or any of the other non-RPM
based distros?

> thanks -mike
> 

Matthew E. Lauterbach




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